Developing admin pages

From KnowledgeTree Document Management Made Simple

Administration pages are dynamically created based on the categories and pages registered by plugins.

Admin Categories don't require specific classes to be created, and work with strings:

    $oPlugin->registerAdminCategory("principals", _("Users and Groups"), 
        _("Control which users can log in, and are part of which groups and organisational units from these management panels."));

Admin pages are just standard dispatcher pages that extend from the KTAdminDispatcher class:

require_once(KT_LIB_DIR . '/dispatcher.inc.php');
class DeletedDocumentsDispatcher extends KTAdminDispatcher {
...
}

Admin pages are registered with the plugin they are associated:

    $oPlugin->registerAdminPage("expunge",'DeletedDocumentsDispatcher','storage', _('Expunge Deleted Documents'),
        _('Permanently expunge deleted documents.'), 'admin/deletedDocuments.php');

• The first parameter is the short web path name (so this page would be admin.php/storage/expunge)
• The second parameter is the name of the class that represents the page
• The third paramater is the category in which the page resides
• The fourth parameter is the title/heading given to the admin page in the category listing
• The fifth parameter is the description given in the category listing
• The sixth parameter is the path to the implementation of the class listed in the second parameter