Building a package for OC Extension in 2016

Post by Kenberne1965 » Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:04 pm

Hi everyone, hope your all well, Ive started building OC extensions again, but it seams things have changed quite a bit when it comes to installing them into opencart 2.1 and above.

Is there a guide somewhere that explains all this, when i last made extensions, it was simply a matter of uploading them via ftp and you was done.

Now it seams all a little bit complicated, and do we use VQmod or OCmod? ive always used VQmod and this would be my mod of choice unless OCmod has taken over?

Any pointers appreciated, maybe it just seams more complicated than it really is.

Paul

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Post by Kenberne1965 » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:03 pm

Thats what I love about open cart, people falling over themselfs to help

after a bit of research I see you can create a .ocmod.zip with an upload folder and optional install.php, install.sql and a required install.xml

but I need to know what should be in these files, obviously I know my files go in the uploads folder in the opencart structure, but what goes in the .php and more importantly the required .xml?

Again any help would be appreciated, I tried it without the install.xml file but it fails to upload giving a directory not found error.

Paul

Freelance Opencart 1.5.x and 2.x Developer - Available For Hire
Latest Opencart 2 Project --> http://www.falcon-rangecookers.co.uk

Post by artcore » Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:16 pm

If you only have changes to the core then you can just use yourfile_name.ocmod.xml
If you want to (also) add new files, use the upload folder as you've found out. If you only want to add new files I guess you can have an empty install.xml (with default tags for author,version etc)
iow install.xml is the former vqmod xml but with ocmod syntax (position to 'add' tag, index starts at 0, less robust search)

I use install.php for adding db tables, layouts, admin permissions and so on. I'm not sure if install.sql is useful as the db prefix is unknown
If you have an installable module(from extension page) the install() function can also act as install.php

Hope this helps

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Thanks!

Post by Kenberne1965 » Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:26 pm

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Post by artcore » Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:54 pm

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Reason: OpenCart version 3+

Thanks!

Post by Kenberne1965 » Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:22 pm

yeah, i use localcopy

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Post by nsweb » Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:48 pm

Icecat Integration
Products datasheets (name, full description, images, features, barcodes)
http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... n_id=25976