Question

We are a small team of developers planing to develop a php application. (let’s say a CRM system)

Our main goal is to make it a plug-in-enabled application so that clients’ developers can write plug-ins add new features to the system without changing the application’s core code.

These changes may include: 1) adding new features: more likely adding a new page and creating a new database table and and implementing new operations such as add/edit/display data.

2) editing existing functionality (e.g. we have a list of users, they might need the user name to be a hyperlink and open a light box with user information)

Since this is going to a medium to large-scale application we need to plan it carefully.

At the moment our plan is to write the core application structure and implement the requirements as plug-ins, so that each time a client needs a change we only need to upgrade a specific plug-in.

I just need the gurus here to give us some ideas or links to look at before we start.

The final question is “how to build a plug-in-enabled PHP application?”

Thanks all…

Answer 1

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http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/67697/