I’m new to EE but have about 6 years experience in PHP.  I can do plugins fine, no problem.  I’m using a plugin right now to create extended data for some stuff and storing it in a database, with tools that can be used to edit this data that can be called with EE tags.

Now, this works fine but I would love to make it a module and have the tools being used right in EE with EE’s own control panel. But, every time I try and make a module (editing the Fortunes example, or rather using it as a template) I get the same weird problem.  When I click install, it doesn’t say it installs.  But when I click on “install” again it asks me to uninstall it.  It also doesn’t show the version number.

When I just upload the Fortunes example as-is, I have no problem.  But the minute I rename it (I rename all the proper stuff, the file names, the folder, and the actual classes in the file (this I do with Scite’s find and replace utilities) and try that out I get the same error.

Are you modifying the queries for exp_modules in modulename_module_install() method to have the new class name?

I think so.  Let me check.  If it is and still not working, I’ll post the contents of my install function

Here is the install function:
  function searchvi_module_install()
  {
      global $DB;     
     
      $sql[] = “INSERT INTO exp_modules (module_id,
                            module_name,
                            module_version,
                            has_cp_backend)
                            VALUES
                            (’‘,
                            ‘searchVi’,
                            ‘$this->version’,
                            ‘y’)”;
                           
      $sql[] = “CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `exp_vidata` (  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `bedrooms` int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’,  PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ;”;
 
      foreach ($sql as $query)
      {
        $DB->query($query);
      }
     
      return true;
  }

That class name is not following the Developer Guidelines for Class Naming

That was it!  Thanks.  The actual class was named properly, but not the one mentioned in INSERT.