exchanging DoAction with method.something.php

[epic]

Howdy,

I am a CMSMS noob, but veteran programmer. I've created my own module. It works fine when I have a DoAction method. However, I can't seem to get it to work by moving the method to method.sayhowdy.php.

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I have searched the forum/google to no avail. I'm sure I'm doing a very basic thing wrong. I've reduced the problem to the most basic code below.

I have CMSMS 1.10.2 running on Fedora 12, Apache 2, MySQL 5.1.42, PHP 5.3.3.

Below is my situation. Thanks.


SOURCE CODE:

$ ls /home/html/cmsmadesimple/modules/howdy | more

drwxrwxr-x 2 dan web 4096 2012-01-06 15:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 nobody web 4096 2012-01-06 15:21 ..
-rwxrw-r-- 1 dan web 879 2012-01-06 15:37 howdy.module.php
-rwxrw-r-- 1 dan web 6 2012-01-06 15:22 method.install.php
-rwxrw-r-- 1 dan web 80 2012-01-06 15:30 method.sayhowdy.php
-rwxrw-r-- 1 dan web 6 2012-01-06 15:22 method.uninstall.php

$ cat howdy.module.php
<?php
if( !isset($gCms) ) exit;

class howdy extends CMSModule
{
function SetParameters()
{
$this->RegisterModulePlugin();// allows us to use {howdy} instead of {cms_module module='howdy'}
}
function GetName()// must return the exact class name of the module
{
return 'howdy';
}
function GetFriendlyName()// name shown in Admin Menus
{
return 'howdy';
}
function GetVersion()// CMS will use this to identify whether installed version is current
{
return '0.1';
}
function IsPluginModule()// return true so this module can be included in template/page
{
return true;
}
function InstallPostMessage()
{
return 'howdy has been installed';
}
function UninstallPreMessage()
{
return 'uninstall howdy?';
}
function UninstallPostMessage()
{
return 'howdy uninstalled';
}
function DoAction($action, $id, $params, $returnid=-1)
{
if ($action == 'default') {
echo 'howdy';
}
}
}
?>

$ cat method.install.php
<?
?>

$ cat method.sayhowdy.php
<?
error_log('method.sayhowdy.php');
if( !isset($gCms) ) exit;
echo 'howdy';
?>

$ cat method.uninstall.php
<?
?>


*** TEST 1 ***

CONTENT > PAGES > ADD:

<p>[{howdy}]</p>


OUTPUT:

...
<p>[howdy]</p>
...


*** TEST 2 ***

$ cat howdy.module.php
<?php
if( !isset($gCms) ) exit;

class howdy extends CMSModule
{
function SetParameters()
{
$this->RegisterModulePlugin();// allows us to use {howdy} instead of {cms_module module='howdy'}
}
function GetName()// must return the exact class name of the module
{
return 'howdy';
}
function GetFriendlyName()// name shown in Admin Menus
{
return 'howdy';
}
function GetVersion()// CMS will use this to identify whether installed version is current
{
return '0.1';
}
function IsPluginModule()// return true so this module can be included in template/page
{
return true;
}
function InstallPostMessage()
{
return 'howdy has been installed';
}
function UninstallPreMessage()
{
return 'uninstall howdy?';
}
function UninstallPostMessage()
{
return 'howdy uninstalled';
}
/* function DoAction($action, $id, $params, $returnid=-1) REMOVED! */
}
?>

$ cat method.sayhowdy.php
<?
error_log('method.sayhowdy.php');
if( !isset($gCms) ) exit;
echo 'howdy';
?>


CONTENT > PAGES > CHANGE:

<p>[{howdy action='sayhowdy'}]</p>


OUTPUT:

...
<p>[]</p>
...

* In addition, error_log('method.sayhowdy.php'); does not get called.

[epic]

Please forgive me. I named the files method.* instead of action.*.
D'oh!
Figured it out by examining lib/classes/class.CMSModule.php.

[Wishbone]

This same question was the topic of my first post as well.

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopi ... 28#p139128

Should be named action.sayhowdy.php

I used to use CGBlog as my example to figure how things work.