[imp] expanding imp folder maintenance functions

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting brook davis <brook at linuxbox.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> Ok, so I've decided to go with the Maintenance Tasks.  So far, I've been
> unable to figure out exactly how these integrate into the system.  To
> test, I've developed a dummy task and I've made the following steps:
>
>
> 1)
> I've added:
>
> imp/lib/Maintenance/Task/test_maintenance.php
>
> this file contains a class definition:
>
> class Maintenance_Task_test_maintenance extends Maintenance_Task {}
>
> Inside the class are two dummy functions, doMaintenance() and
> describeMaintenance().  The first simply returns true, the second
> returns a descriptive string.
>
> 2)
> I've added the following to the $maint_tasks array in
> imp/lib/Maintenance/imp.php:
>
> 'test_maintenance'  => MAINTENANCE_MONTHLY
>
> 3)
> I've added the following to imp/config/prefs.php:
>
> $_prefs['test_maintenance'] = array(
>    'value' => 0,
>    'locked' => false,
>    'shared' => false,
>    'type' => 'checkbox',
>    'desc' => _("Test Maintenance?"));
>
>
> However, I'm still unable to get the UI class to print my form
> elements.  Can anyone offer a suggestion on how I might be able to
> accomplish this?  I've searched through the code, but I must be missing
> something here.  What are the steps to integrate a task through the
> Maintenance API?

You need to add 'test_maintenance' to a $prefsGroup entry near the top 
of the prefs.php.dist file (in the 'members' array element).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]