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[macmiller]

I am working my way through the plug-in tutorial and am having trouble getting the adding a button to the admin menu and adding a button to the system menu ones to work.  What happens is that they install but don't alter the display (ie. no additional buttons are displayed).

Here is the code I have for the system menu example, it is as written except that it seems a language file is needed. 

configuration.php

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<?php
/*************************
  Coppermine Plugin - A test Plugin
  ************************
  Copyright (c) 2011
  ************************
  v1.0 originally written by Gregory Demar

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3
  as published by the Free Software Foundation.
  ********************************************/

$name='button sys';
$description = 'add a button to sys menu';
$author = 'example';
$version = '1.0';
$plugin_cpg_version = array('min' => '1.5');
?>
codebase.php

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<?php
/**************************************************
  Coppermine Plugin - Button Sys
  *************************************************
  Copyright (c) 20011 Example Plugin
  *************************************************
  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3
  as published by the Free Software Foundation.
***************************************************/
require_once "./plugins/buttonSys/initialize.inc.php";

if (!defined('IN_COPPERMINE')) die('Not in Coppermine...');


// Add install & configure actions
$thisplugin->add_filter('sys_menu','coffee_maker_sys_button');


// Add a filter for the admin_menu
function coffee_maker_bar_sys_button($menu) {
    global $lang_plugin_coffee_maker, $template_sys_menu_spacer, $CONFIG;
    if ($CONFIG['plugin_coffee_maker_how'] == 4) {
coffee_maker_bar_language(); // Call the function that populates the language variable
        $new_button = array();
        $new_button[0][0] = $lang_plugin_coffee_maker['picinfo_heading'];
        $new_button[0][1] = $lang_plugin_coffee_maker['menu'];
        $new_button[0][2] = 'index.php?file=coffee_maker/index';
        $new_button[0][3] = 'coffee_maker';
        $new_button[0][4] = $template_sys_menu_spacer;
        $new_button[0][5] = 'rel="nofollow"';
        array_splice($menu, count($menu)-1, 0, $new_button);
    }
    return $menu;
}
?>lang/english.php

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<?php
$lang_plugin_coffee_maker['plugin_name'] = 'Coffee Maker';
$lang_plugin_coffee_maker['plugin_description'] = 'This plugin will turn your gallery into a full-featured coffee machine.';
$lang_plugin_coffee_maker['coffee_bean'] = 'coffee bean';
$lang_plugin_coffee_maker['brew'] = 'brew';
$lang_plugin_coffee_maker['picinfo_heading']='testing1';
$lang_plugin_coffee_maker['menu']='testing2';
?>
initialize.inc.php

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<?php
function coffee_maker_language() {
global $CONFIG, $lang_plugin_coffee_maker;
require "./plugins/buttonSys/lang/english.php";
if ($CONFIG['lang'] != 'english' && file_exists("./plugins/coffee_maker/lang/{$CONFIG['lang']}.php")) {
    require "./plugins/buttonSys/lang/{$CONFIG['lang']}.php";
}
}
?>
I am not sure if the example is meant as a complete example that should display a button or if other code is needed.  It would be extremely instructive if I could get the example working.  I only added the language file since it seemed necessary to support the variables.  I wonder if there is a complete example of this coffee maker plugin if it is not complete. 

I also noticed in code that the add_filter command references coffee_maker_sys_button but the function is named coffee_maker_bar_sys_button.  Is a coffee_maker_sys_button function needed?

Hope this makes some sense, I appreciate any help.

[macmiller]

It seems there were some errors in the tutorial code, this code which was in some other documentation worked and added the button:

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<?php
$thisplugin->add_filter('sys_menu','add_sub_button');

function add_sub_button($menu) {
    $new_button = array();
    $new_button[0][0] = 'MENU LINK';
    $new_button[0][1] = 'menu link';
    $new_button[0][2] = './menu_link.php';
    $new_button[0][3] = 'class_name';
    $new_button[0][4] = '::';
    $new_button[0][5] = 'rel="nofollow"';

    array_splice($menu, count($menu)-1, 0, $new_button);

    return $menu;
}
?>
For some reason it doesn't seem to add the button in the themes hardwired/curve/eyeball but does add them in rainy_day/water_drop.  Most likely has to do with how the themes were coded I imagine.

A related question is how would the code look to add say 2 buttons?

[macmiller]

never mind.. this worked.

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<?php
$thisplugin->add_filter('sys_menu','add_sub_button');

function add_sub_button($menu) {
    $new_button = array();
    $new_button[0][0] = 'MENU LINK';
    $new_button[0][1] = 'menu link';
    $new_button[0][2] = './menu_link.php';
    $new_button[0][3] = 'class_name';
    $new_button[0][4] = '::';
    $new_button[0][5] = 'rel="nofollow"';
    $new_button[1][0] = 'MENU LINK1';
    $new_button[1][1] = 'menu link1';
    $new_button[1][2] = './menu_link1.php';
    $new_button[1][3] = 'class_name';
    $new_button[1][4] = '::';
    $new_button[1][5] = 'rel="nofollow"';

    array_splice($menu, count($menu)-1, 0, $new_button);

    return $menu;
}
?>