Simple Page Module Stub to Help New Developers

Omeka S Development
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Hi,
I’m a long -time omeka user who has just developed a substantial site and needs to create a custom show page for a specific class of items. When an item of Type: Location is displayed, I want the show page to have some metadata about the location in question, and then on the same page, a list of related items would be displayed categorized according to various types, ordered according to a hidden property.

Over the years, I have managed to teach myself several different programming frameworks, but I find that learning Zend from scratch is very daunting – especially for a person who wants to learn just enough zend to create a simple Omeka-s module.

It seems to me that it would be helpful to have a base module similar to the old “Simple Pages” module that is a fully functional module that a person could use as a stub for taking apart and incrementally customizing. I find that examples like this are very beneficial for a sort of hacker approach to bootstrapping an understanding of how Omeka-S modules work.

Does anyone out there have any advice for me such as existing Omeka-S modules that may fill the bill? I have seen DanielKM’s “Generic” module, and may start fooling around with this. Although I think it would be much more helpful in my situation to start with a module that is finished and can be installed right out of the box.

I may be willing to pay someone to ressurect the simeple pages module, perhaps with the addition of a very simple ordered item list.

I would also welcome advice on strategies for boostrapping on Zend for Omeka Module developers.

Thank you.

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The best way is to use simple module or similar module as an example.

Generic is a module that simplifies the creation of new modules, because it manages simply the installation, the uninstallation, the config keys, the config, the setting, the site setting, etc. Just create a standard form, add the keys in the config, add some code in the module, and that’s all. and I don’t need to recopy the boring and repetitive code. Ideally, all this code should be in the core.

But I don’t understand the simple page stub: for a site page, you just need to create a block or even a simple template for the theme. See the module BlockPlus too, that allows to have multiple template by block.

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Hi Daniel,

Thank you VERY MUCH! Tis is exactly the sort of pointer I was looking for. I am sure that you have saved me weeks of effort in trying to create my first module. Or maybe BlockPlus is the solution for making a specific sort of custom show page for items with related resources. I will update this post once I have had a chance to mess around with the BlockPlus module.

Have a great weekend.
–pbc.