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PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming

8.3.10. PHP-Nuke-Tools module

Figure 8-28. PHP-Nuke Tools block

PHP-Nuke Tools block

The PHP-Nuke Tools module is one of the most helpful modules. Whether you are developing for PHP-Nuke or want to write a module or block really quickly, or even if you just want to learn how modules, blocks and the rest works in PHP-Nuke, you will appreciate its help.. It offers features such as:

Module Creator (see Figure 8-29),
Block Creator,
Help for Module Creator,
Help for Block Creator,
HTML to PHP,
HTML to ASP,
HTML to JSP,
HTML to Perl,
HTML to JavaScript,
Online HTML Editor,
Meta Tag Creator,
Scrollbar Creator,
Popup Creator,
Hex Colors

Figure 8-29. PHP-Nuke Tools module: Module Creator.

PHP-Nuke Tools module: Module Creator.

and many others. It comes with an extra block containing links to all functions (Figure 8-28). See it in action at disipal.net.

	Especially recommended for beginners (but not only)!
	You are a beginner in PHP(-Nuke), have just started your very first module or block, but you get errors and don't understand why? Give it a try with the PHP-Nuke Tools Module or Block Creator! It will help you see what you were missing and will also give you a feeling of how code looks before and after it is "nuked".

For a much more ambitious project on automatic building of PHP-Nuke blocks and modules (towards a web-based integrated programming environment, IDE, for PHP-Nuke) ckeck Raven's Block Builder. It is currently under development, but very promising.