Converting a PHP standalone to a PHPNuke Module

Nelson · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 25, 2003 Posts: 30

Hi All,

I would like to create a module addon for my site. The application is an email chess server (a sourceforge project), which I am now running as a php standalone.

The application uses its own mysql database, and requires its own login (cookie-based).

I am not asking anyone to do this work for me ... I would like to attempt it myself, but I am at a loss as to how to start..

Generally speaking, what major steps would be required to convert this to a php module?

Here is the index.php, as it stands now:
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<?
session_start();
if (isset($user)&&isset($pass)){
$_POST['pwdPassword'] = $pass;
$_POST['txtNick'] = $user;
$_POST['ToDo'] = "Login";
session_register(_POST);
header("location: mainmenu.php");
exit;
}

require("config.php");

if ($_COOKIE["cookie_language"] != "")
$lang = $_COOKIE["cookie_language"];

if ($_GET["language"] != "")
$lang = $_GET["language"];

if ($lang=="")
$lang=$CFG_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;

/* Language selection */
require "languages/".$lang.".inc.php";

setcookie("cookie_language",$lang,time()+60*60*24*365*2);
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>WebChess Login</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor=white text=black>

<font face="Verdana"><img src="images/compwebchess.gif"></font>

<form method="post" action="mainmenu.php" name="login">
<div align="center">

<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" bgcolor="#000000" align=center>
<tr bgcolor=#cfcfbb>
<td width="86" align="right">
<font face="Verdana" size="2"><?=$MSG_LANG["language"]?>:</font></td>
<td width="207" align="left"><font face="Verdana">
<select name="language" onChange="window.location='index.php?language='+document.login.language.value">
<option value="english"><?=$MSG_LANG["english"]?>
<option value="portuguese"><?=$MSG_LANG["portuguese"]?>
<option value="french"><?=$MSG_LANG["french"]?>
<option value="german"><?=$MSG_LANG["german"]?>
<option value="spanish"><?=$MSG_LANG["spanish"]?>
</select>
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor=#cfcfbb>
<td width="86" align="right">
<font face="Verdana" size="2"><?=$MSG_LANG["username"]?>:</font></td>
<td width="207" align="left"><font face="Verdana"> <input name="txtNick" type="text" size="15" /></font></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor=#cfcfbb>
<td width="86" align="right">
<font face="Verdana" size="2"><?=$MSG_LANG["password"]?>:</font></td>
<td width="207" align="left"><font face="Verdana"> <input name="pwdPassword" type="password" size="15" /><font
size="2">
</font></font></td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>

<p align="center">
<font face="Verdana">
<input name="ToDo" value="Login" type="hidden" />
<input name="login" value="<?=$MSG_LANG["login"]?>" type="submit" />
</font>
</p>

<p align="center">
<font face="Verdana" size="2">
<a href="newuser.php?language=<?=$language?>"><?=$MSG_LANG["createuser"]?></a></font></p>

</form>
<BR>
<font face="verdana" size="2">
<table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="400" align="center" border="0">
<tr>
<td colSpan="2" align=center><font face=verdana size=1>
<a href="http://kymera.comp.pucpcaldas.br/projects/compwebchess/" target="_blank">CompWebChess</a> <?=$VERSION?> © 2003,
<a href="http://www.inf.pucpcaldas.br/~rayel" target="_blank">Felipe Rayel</a>,
<a href="credits.php">Collaborators</a>
<hr>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="middle"><font face="verdana" size="1">
<?include("footer.inc.php")?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</font>
<script>
document.login.language.value="<?=$lang?>";
</script>

<p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#AAAAAA">
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</body>
</html>
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