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Hi I’ve written functions that export a csv file containing information about all of the members. I would like these functions to be called by a button at the top of the view/search members control panel page of the members module.

How best to do this without hacking the core module?

I’m assuming that this is best done using an extension. Althought I can’t actually find any decent tutorials or information that help explain how to use one of the hooks to impliment this.

Could someone please point me in the right direction?

I’m assuming that this is best done using an extension. Althought I can’t actually find any decent tutorials or information that help explain how to use one of the hooks to impliment this.

Could someone please point me in the right direction?

I think your best bet would be the show_full_control_panel_end hook.

You can insert HTML into your CP by doing a search and replace on the Control Panel HTML. The DC Required Category add-on uses this method to insert some of it’s own settings into the CP. So if you look at its source, I guess you could figure out how to do it.

Greetz,
Wouter

Thanks. This should send me on the right path. Perhaps needing to reverse engineer another developers plugin in order to learn how the system works indicates a shortfall in the Expression Engine documentation…

Well… the documentation is there…

Hook Description:
- Rewrite CP’s HTML
- Find/Replace Stuff, etc.

It is just the way you use it that is hard to document. Every developer comes up with imaginative ways to makes use of a particular hook, so why not take advantage of that?

Greetz,
Wouter

I see your point man and I agree. I just think it took me too long to learn how a concept like hooks work. In doing so I think that the documentation could be more thorough

Something like this would have helped me immensely:

The function you associate with this hook in the extension takes $out as a parameter :

//When this function is called, the html of the control panel is passed in as a parameter 
//which you can then manipulate
function the_function_associated_with_the_hook_in_extension_settings( $out ){

//Do something with the html

//Return your modified control panel html to be displayed
return $out;

}

Could someone tell me if the ‘show_full_control_panel_end’ hook has been deprecated or in some way removed from EE2 ?

There seems to be no difinitive answer in this forum http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/153999/ and it is extremely important to a project I have due by tomorrow.

Cheers

Could someone tell me if the ‘show_full_control_panel_end’ hook has been deprecated or in some way removed from EE2 ?

There seems to be no difinitive answer in this forum http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/153999/ and it is extremely important to a project I have due by tomorrow.

Cheers

It has been removed in EE2. I ran into this myself not too long ago when I was porting one of my add-ons.

Did you by any chance find a solution?