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JJJ What is this you reference in your word camp video?

@modemlooper

Moderator

14 years ago

Can you explain more about this code? How to use it?

`class BP_Example_Component extends BP_Component {

function __construct(){
parent::start(
‘example’,
__(‘Example’, ‘buddypress’),
BP_PLUGIN_DIR
);
}

function includes() {
$includes = array(
‘actions’,
‘screens’,
‘template’,
‘functions’,
);
parent::includes($includes);
}
}
`

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@r-a-y

Keymaster

14 years ago

That’s if you want to create a brand-new BP component by extending the base BP_Component class.
This makes things way easy to manage and develop going forward!

You can find examples throughout the BP 1.5 codebase (look at each subdirectory for bp-x-loader.php and stare at it until it melts into your head!).

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

14 years ago

Easiest thing to do is check out the phpDoc in the code itself.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-core/bp-core-component.php#L6

Basically it requires a few basic parameters to identify the component, and calls the parent class function to put them into action.

@modemlooper

Moderator

14 years ago

Should have looked first, man oh man the component code is so much cleaner. Well done, gents!

@modemlooper

Moderator

14 years ago

Ok, so tried to move some code from core to create a custom component and nothing worked. Never got a page to create and not sure how to link it to template files.

For example: in bp-activity it has a file bp-activity-template.php and in include array there’s an entry ‘template’. Is this pointing to that file? Do we need to include all these files listed in the array? If I had bp-example-template.php in my array id still use ‘template’?

To me it seemed much easier to create components before. I know I can still use old method but that won’t last forever.

Can somebody update the skeleton component to reflect the new method?

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