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Services

Tiki services


Services in Tiki are PHP classes.
Services execute certain actions (eg: insert, update, delete, list, etc).

Services vs libs

Tiki libs provide a reusable functionality to other Tiki components. For example, the Tiki syntax parser is a library used by many other components that need transform Tiki syntax in HTML.

But if you need to provide data or functionality to a component outside Tiki, like a third-party javascript component, you have to use Services. For example, the "Favorite" service lets third party javascript components add and retrieve user's favorites list.

Service catalogue

The Tiki services folders containing Controller files, lives under lib/core/Services/.

Each folder containing a Tiki service is registered in the file db/config/controllers.xml

For example, the Wiki service is available in folder lib/core/Services/Wiki/ and its controllers are registered in controllers.xml like below.

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<service id="tiki.controller.wiki" class="Services_Wiki_Controller"/>
 

Actions

A service can contain one or more controllers. The Wiki, for example, contains two controllers: Services_Wiki_StructureController and Services_Wiki_Controller.

Public and private functions
 

Smarty tpl


 

Using $input

$input holds all information passed to the action (variables with values). This needs to be extracted and validated in the action.

Using $confirm

In the smarty templates put a $confirm variable, this helps to identify if the action is to be executed.
Why? For a given action the same smarty tpl is used for creating a new item and updating an existing one.

1) use service
2) use bootstrap_modal

How to...

Create a service

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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