[Koha-devel] Adding "web pages" via Koha Plugins

[David Cook]

Hi all,

 

What do folk think about adding "web pages" via Koha Plugins? 

 

At the moment, we can inject REST API routes and serve static files, but we
don't really have a way of creating web pages on the OPAC (or the Staff
Interface) that can be interacted with by a user without plugin permissions.


 

At the moment, there are a few options for providing this functionality. You
could create a custom page via opac-page.pl and inject Javascript using
"opac_js", but that involves some manual work from staff users.
Alternatively, you could serve a HTML page from a REST API endpoint, but
that's a corruption of the REST API. 

 

I suppose a Koha plugin could insert a page into the "additional_contents"
table, although there doesn't seem to be a robust machine friendly way of
detecting if the page was added by a plugin. Plus it could only be
referenced using an integer ID rather than a plugin namespace or shortcode.
Maybe the answer would be to add a column to the "additional_contents"
table? Something like "source"? (Although it would need to be more than
"plugin" so that different plugins aren't stepping on each other.)

 

But I think it would be useful to be able to add a Perl-backed page via a
Koha plugin in any case. 

 

David Cook

Senior Software Engineer

Prosentient Systems

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6a Glen St

Milsons Point NSW 2061

Australia

 

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