I've been looking around for a howto or a tutorial on how to make a plugin for Mantis, but cannot find a decent one. Does anyone know of a good tutorial for a Mantis beginner?

I think I know how to set the environment up, but don't know where all the logic behind the plugin goes. Also I don't know how to make the plugin environment into a mantis.pkg file.

Any direction would be appreciated.

That's hidden in the Wiki

PS: The webserver could be hard to reach (so try again).

Vincent

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I've been to that page, but from what I gathered it shows me how to setup the plugin environment, not actually start on a plugin. I'll try looking again.

As for my packaging problem...here's a picture of showing what my Plugin Manager page looks like. I don't see how to package a plugin that I'm developing.

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According to what I saw, you didn't start your plugin. The following page will help you to generate the required files to enable the packager on your plugin.

You can try by making an empty plugin, create the directory, use the previous link to generate the files and then go in the Plugins page (you'll see some changes).

Vincent

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My problem was that I copied a core.php file from another plugin and it had some require statements for files that didn't exist. That was making Mantis throw me HTTP 500 Internal Server Errors. I simply removed those require statements, and I now have the option to package my plugin. Thank you.

Now on to implementation, I'm assuming I put all my functions and logic I may need in index.php?

The index.php of your plugin is called when you click on your plugin name in the Plugins page.
Generally I put the plugin configuration in the index.php page but you can put everything you want in this file (keep in mind that this is the file called from yhe Plugins page).
The index.php is called only if the user has the required level (by default administrator), so if you want to build a page with no access level check, you should make another page.

Vincent

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Could you help me understand this a bit better? The following bit of code is in index.php for pluginmanager:

<!-- Check Version -->
<tr <?php echo helper_alternate_class() ?>>
<td class="category" width="30%">
<span class="required">*</span><?php echo lang_get( &#039;plugins_pluginmanager_check_version&#039; ) ?>
</td>
<td width="70%">
<input type="checkbox" name="check_version"<?php check_checked( config_get( &#039;plugins_pluginmanager_check_version&#039;, PLUGINS_PLUGINMANAGER_CHECK_VERSION_DEFAULT ), ON ) ?> />
</td>
</tr>

1. Where is this helper_alternate_class()?
2. Where is lang_get and config_get?
3. How does name="check_version" work?
4. I noticed that &#039;plugins_pluginmanager_check_version&#039; is very close to $s_plugins_pluginmanager_check_version in strings_english.txt, how does "Check Version" get displayed?

If there is a link that I can go to in order to find this information out, please let me know.

You should take a look in the MANTIS_ROOT/core directory to understand how Mantis works before starting a plugin.

Vincent

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Thank you Vincent, as weird as it sounds, sometimes I need someone to state the obvious. To answer my own questions in case some other poor soul finds this thread useful:

1. in MANTIS_ROOT/core/helper_api.php.
2. lang_get is in MANTIS_ROOT/core/lang_api.php
config_get is in MANTIS_ROOT/core/config_api.php
3. I don&#039;t know how this works in relation to Mantis.
4. lang_get() calls another function named lang_load() which then inserts an &#039;s_&#039; to the beginning of the string, and adds it to $g_lang_strings.

If I&#039;m wrong in any way, don&#039;t hesitate in correcting me.

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3. I don&#039;t know how this works in relation to Mantis.

That&#039;s HTML. It is not related to Mantis.

Vincent

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