Extensions and addons

[psydone]

Hey
I'm currently trying to find a decent POS system for a club, the club sells both products/items aswell as memberships (think of memberships as items with expiry and renew expiry time functions. I was thinking of adding a module/extension to phppos. Is there any doco or way of doing this without messing with the base code your using?

[blasto333]

There is no documentation but the codebase is written using a framework called CodeIgnitor which has great documentation.

http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/

[psydone]

Hey blasto, thanks I had a look but what I was more after was a pluggable reference guide or something like that. Generally the success of these projects depends on how one can extend the system to make it work for them, ala joomla, drupal, magento. Basically people should be able to throw on modules they would like and not ones they don't.

My example case I'm looking to sell services/time so a time module that extends the item functions but still works in the ecosystem of everything else would be great to just copy into a folder, enable it somewhere and hey presto.

Through the night since my previous post I've managed to create a pseudo module called timeitems, by copying the items controllers, views and lang files and making a few extensions in the config files to include this section. The next step is to finish writing it and extend some reports aswell as the checkout features. Once all thats done I might try making it easily importable and release it for everyone else. By doing this I should be able to document it all so that others could come up with similar extensions and also understand how its all fits together.

[blasto333]

I tried to design it in a way that modules can be created. If you want to document this process, it would be great if you could throw it in the wiki.

http://wiki.phppointofsale.com/