[Koha-devel] Creating New Pages in Koha - second request

[Richard Forristall]

Thank you all for your replies!  It's only when the obvious is staring you in the face do you realize how much there still is to learn.

My issue was permissions -- once I did a chmod on the .pl page, it worked! I made the assumption that if I saved a file to the server it would immediately be executable - wrong :0)

Chris, --> I'm not adding content pages as in a CMS, I'm trying to add custom tools for my librarian.

I've added a "Favorites" link in the staff client pages in the top navigation that links to existing Koha pages -- pages the librarian uses often.  I wanted to add some functionality - in particular to give the librarian an option to run the zebra reindex process as soon as she imports or adds books, etc to the circulation.  So my thought was to have a page where she could go that is custom tools - the zebra reindex being the first.  Make sense?  She doesn't add books very often so I didn't want to unnecessarily run a cron script every few minutes.  I could set the cron script to run daily, but then I run into the problem of what if she adds books in the morning - they aren't available until the cron script runs. So, I wanted to create a way for the librarian to activate the zebra reindexing as soon as (and only when she needs it) she is finished adding books, etc.

I haven't created the process to actually run the zebra reindex yet. Now that I have the new page available, that's the next challenge.  I'm assuming I can use the perl system() method to run the "opt/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -k -reset" from within a .pl file, that is after setting the KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB environment variables first.  My plan is to have links on the tools page.  One would be a link to a .pl file that would run the necessary steps to perform the zebra reindex then provide feedback to the librarian.

Again, thanks for your inputs.  It's been years since programming in Perl -- I work in PHP daily, so I'm back in learning mode for Perl.

 
Thanks,
 
Rick
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hafen [mailto:mdhafen at tech.washk12.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:05 PM
To: Eric Bégin
Cc: Richard Forristall; Koha-devel at lists.koha.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Creating New Pages in Koha - second request

Also, the new page .pl file has to have the read and execute file system permissions set so the web server can run it.

Then, once the page does what you want, you have to look at the main page and side bar for that module and put a link to the page in those files.

Good luck.

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:50 -0400, Eric Bégin wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> My guest would be that the owner of your file is not koha:koha.
> 
> A look to your log file may give you a hint (default: /var/log/koha/*).
> 
> Eric
> 
> Richard Forristall wrote:
> >  
> > Hi again,
> >
> > If anyone can help me with creating new pages in Koha - could you 
> > provide a link to documentation or let me know if there are steps 
> > beside merely copying existing pages/templates and saving as new files?
> >
> > Thanks a gozillian!
> >
> >  
> > Thanks,
> >  
> > Rick
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Rick Forristall
> > Programmer Analyst
> > Goodwill of Central AZ
> > 602.535.4078
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > Through your generous material and cash donations - we provide free 
> > human services programs that create hope, jobs and sustainability 
> > for central Arizonans. In 2009 your donations transformed 25,000 
> > lives. Good Stuff. Good Work. Goodwill.
> >
> > We Put People to Work!
> > A 2009 Best Places to Work Winner
> > www.goodwillaz.org
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org 
> > [mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org] On Behalf Of Richard 
> > Forristall
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:42 AM
> > To: Koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> > Subject: [Koha-devel] Creating New Pages in Koha
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction for documentation on 
> > creating new pages in koha?
> >
> > I tried to create a new tools page by copying the holidays.pl & 
> > holidays.tmpl pages and saving them each with a new name.  But, when 
> > I navigate to this new page I get an Error 500 page.  Our site is on 
> > an intranet so I can't show it.
> >
> > If I go into the holidays.pl page and replace its template_name => 
> > "holidays.tmpl" (line 33), with the name of the new .tmpl file I 
> > created, then reload the holidays.pl page -- it works with the 
> > different .tmpl file.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> >  
> > Rick
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Rick Forristall
> > Programmer Analyst
> > Goodwill of Central AZ
> > 602.535.4078
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > Through your generous material and cash donations - we provide free 
> > human services programs that create hope, jobs and sustainability 
> > for central Arizonans. In 2009 your donations transformed 25,000 
> > lives. Good Stuff. Good Work. Goodwill.
> >
> > We Put People to Work!
> > A 2009 Best Places to Work Winner
> > www.goodwillaz.org
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