Core

aMember Pro v.4 is based on Zend Framework's Zend_Controller and follow its guidelines. There is a Bootstrap class that handles all the dependencies and configuration loading.

To get all aMember Pro functions available for your custom script, just include bootstrap.php within the amember/ folder. It does not output any page, just initialises the core.

aMember Pro uses .htaccess file in root folder to route requests to pages. It is done by using of Apache's mod_rewrite by redirecting all requests for not-image files to amember/index.php . index.php runs Zend_Controller_Front routing procedures to include necessary controller class and run it.

Directory layout

    amember
      application
        configs/              - configuration files
        default/              - default module
          controllers/        - controller files - it replaces usual PHP "pages". One controller usually represents one "traditional" PHP file
          language/           - translations
          models/             - models : each file represents one database table. Contains successors to Am_Table and Am_Record classes
          plugins/
            protect/          - integration plugins
            payment/          - payment plugins
            misc/             - misc. plugins, for example google analytics integration plugin
          themes/             - user-side themes
          themes-admin/       - admin-side themes
          views/              - templates, it is better to modify templates by creation of custom theme
          Bootstrap.php       - module bootstrap file
          db.xml              - database structure configuration file
        newsletter/           - a "newsletter" module. Described here for example
          controllers/        - newsletter module controllers. Accessible like http://www.example.com/am4/newsletter/subscribe
          library/            - newsletter module model classes and other libraries
          views/              - Zend_View templates for newsletter module. All "views" folders are merged to single view path, and module can provide its own version of existing templates
            blocks/           - template "blocks" - small page pieces that can be included/excluded/shuffled via API
      data
        cache/                - cache files
        new-rewrite/          - new-rewrite marker files
      library                 - amember and third-party core libraries
      setup/                  - setup folder
      bootstrap.php           - initialize amember core
      index.php               - runs page controller and outputs content
      js.php                  - accelerator to pack all necessary JS libs to one file and deliver to client
      public.php              - accelerator to provide quick access to custom files, specially configurable CSS files in themes

How-to

Create new "misc" plugin?

• Create file: am/application/default/plugins/misc/sample.php
• Put the following code into:

    <?php
    class Am_Plugin_Samplename extends Am_Plugin
    {
        public function isConfigured()
        {
            return (bool)$this->getConfig('vv');
        }
        function onSetupForms(Am_Event_SetupForms $forms)
        {
            $form = new Am_Form_Setup('sample');
            $form->setTitle("Sample Plugin");
            $forms->addForm($form);
            $form->addElement('text', 'vv')
                 ->setLabel(array('Sample Plugin Config value'));
        }
        function onAfterRender(Am_Event_AfterRender $event)
        {
            $event->replace('(|</body>|i)', 'SAMPLE PLUGIN WORKING! ='.$this->getConfig('vv', 'but not configured - showing default').'=$1');
        }
    }
    ?>