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What might cause this?

I upload a module and it shows up as expected in the module list in the control panel. I click Install. The hamsters go to work and the friendly text “Module Installed: My Module” appears. Information about the module appears as expected in exp_modules, and the module’s tables are all created just fine. Yet the module’s status is still listed as “Not Installed” and the module’s name does not link to the module’s control panel.

An earlier version of this module with an almost identical install routine worked fine. What might I be missing?

What does your query look in the install function for the exp_modules table?

It looks like:

$sql[] = "INSERT INTO exp_modules (module_id,
                                           module_name,
                                           module_version,
                                           has_cp_backend)
                                           VALUES
                                           ('',
                                           'Family Ties',
                                           '$this->version',
                                           'y')";

Instead of Family Ties, try the class name of your module.

Aha, that was it. Thanks, Paul! The developer docs didn’t mention that “module_name” was the class name, not the full name of the module (if different). I should have noticed the underscores and capitalization patterns in the names of a few of the other modules in the exp_modules table (e.g. Metaweblog_api), but it never even dawned on me. I’ll blame it on my cold.

I’m going nuts, i really have the same problem as described, but i don’t get the module listed as installed after it did all the work correctly;

$sql[] = "INSERT INTO exp_modules (module_id,
                                           module_name,
                                           module_version,
                                           has_cp_backend)
                                           VALUES
                                           ('',
                                           'im_online',
                                           '$this->version',
                                           'n')";

in the class named im_online_CP

And the table exp_modules lists;

33      im_online      1.0      n

Anyone has an idea?

Pretty please? 😊