[TYPO3-dev] Backend: Where to put new main menu used by several extensions?

[Kay Strobach]

Hi,

you can declare one of you extensions as base extension.

This one can be easily added as requirement to the others.
In the Mainextension you can add you module ;)

Regards
Kay

Am 29.07.2011 08:27, schrieb Christian Weiske:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Some of your extensions provide backend module and shall get grouped in
> their own main module.
> 
> Adding modules into a main category is easy with using
>> t3lib_extMgm::addModule('company', "txcompanymod', ...);
> - if the main category has been created already. If it is not there
> yet, it gets the same title as the module.
> 
> So to have our custom main category title, we need to add it before the
> normal module is added:
>> if (!isset($TBE_MODULES['company'])) {
>>     t3lib_extMgm::addModule(
>>         'company', '', 'after:web',
>>         t3lib_extMgm::extPath($_EXTKEY) . 'mod_main/'
>>     );
>> }
> (btw, after:web for main modules works with the patch from
>  http://forge.typo3.org/issues/28502
> )
> 
> 
> Now my question:
> 
> Where should we put the creation of the main company module? In every
> single extension that wants to add itself as submodule?
> 
> That's a pretty bunch of duplicated code that I'd rather have at one
> centralized place.
> 
> 


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