plInfo

plInfo is a static function that must be present on all plugin classes that want to appear in FusionDirectory in one of these ways:

In FusionDirectory main menu: use plSection
In an object tabs: use plObjectType
In ACL settings: use plProvidedAcls

This static method returns an array containing keys from the following table. Some may be safely omitted. Do not fill a key if you intend to use the default value for it. Use translated strings (use the _() function) for all displayable strings.

plInfo keys
key	value	used in	default
plShortName	A short name for this class	Used in main menu and ACL summaries or such	mandatory
plTitle	A short title for this class	Used in FD page header at top of the page if this plugin have its own page	plShortName value
plDescription	A short description	Used as tooltip in the menus and description in ACL management	mandatory
plIcon	A big icon (48x48)	Used for main menu and header at top of the page	no icon
plSmallIcon	A small icon (16x16)	Used in listings	empty icon
plSelfModify	TRUE for user tabs, omitted for others	Define if it should appear in «my account» menu section for logged in users	FALSE
plPriority	an integer (safe to omit most of the time)	Defines tab order and menu items order	no prority (at the end, in no specific order)
plDepends	Array of tabs this tab depends on	Listed tabs will need to be activated before this one can be used	empty
plCategory	Array of ACL categories	Should be omitted if you’ve listed objectTypes	categories of objectTypes and managed objects
plObjectType	Array of objectTypes	See full documentation below	empty
plSection	menu section key or array (see below)	See full documentation below	empty
plProvidedAcls	Array of acls	See full documentation below	empty
plForeignKeys	Array of foreign keys	See full documentation below	empty
plManages	Array of managed objectTypes (only for management classes)	Used to create links to objects of these types	empty
plFilter	LDAP filter	Used to test if the tab is active	Generated from plObjectClass
plObjectClass	Array of objectClasses	These objectClasses are added when the tab is saved	empty
plSearchAttrs	Array of attributes	Used in management classes for text search	empty

plSection

plSection can be used if your plugin should appear in the menu. Default menu sections are “accounts”, “systems”, “conf”, “reporting” and “personal”. Usually the plSection is set on the management class if there is any. No need to set any plSection on plugins with objectType user and selfModify TRUE, they’ll appear in the ‘My account’ section anyway.

You can also create a new menu section in this attribute using the following syntax:

<?php
['mysection' => ['name' => _('My section'), 'priority' => 100]]

Replace mysection with a lowercase id for your section and My section with the name to display in the menu.

The existing sections are:

Menu sections
key	name	priority
accounts	Users and groups	0
systems	Systems	10
conf	Configuration	20
reporting	Reporting	30
personal	My account	40

So you can for instance use a priority between 0 and 10 create a section between accounts and systems.

plObjectType

plObjectType is used to know which object type should have this plugin in its tabs. If this tab is the main tab of a new objectType, plObjectType must contain the definition for this object type.

ObjectType definition is an array containing the following keys:

ObjectType properties
key	value	default
name	Displayable name for this object type	mandatory
description	Displayable description for this object type	mandatory
filter	LDAP filter to find objects of this type	value of plFilter
mainAttr	LDAP attribute to use in dn	cn
nameAttr	LDAP attribute to use in object links	mainAttr
tabClass	PHP class to use for tab handling	simpleTabs
icon	Small icon (16x16)	no icon
ou	RDN for the LDAP branch to store these objets in	empty string
aclCategory	The ACL category this objectType is in	key

aclCategory should be the name of an existing ACL category. Most of the time omit this and a category will automagically be created for you.

For instance, this is the plObjectType of the user class:

<?php
'plObjectType'  => [
  'user' => [
    'name'        => _('User'),
    'description' => _('User account'),
    'mainAttr'    => 'uid',
    'nameAttr'    => 'cn',
    'icon'        => 'geticon.php?context=types&icon=user&size=16',
    'ou'          => get_ou('userRDN'),
  ]
],

plForeignKeys

plForeignKeys is to be used if some of your fields are foreign keys to fields of other objects. For instance the manager field in a department is a foreign key on the dn of a user.

The syntax for this is:

<?php
'plForeignKeys'  => [
  'myfield' => [
    ['class', 'hisfield', 'filter'],
  ]
],

But you can omit filter most of the time (defaults to ‘myfield*=%oldvalue%’) and *hisfield if it is the dn, and if there is only one field you are referring to you can omit the array, so for our department example this gives us:

<?php
'plForeignKeys'  => [
  'manager' => 'user'
]

Which is pretty straight forward.

Declaring a foreignKey ensure you that:

If the referred field is modified through FD your object will be updated as well
If the referred object is deleted your field will be emptied if possible (or the specific value referring the object will be removed in case of multi-value attributes)
Your objects will appear in the references tab of referenced objects

plCategory

ACL categories will be filled automagically if you use either plManages or plObjectType. This is the recommanded way to go. If you do need to specify ACL categories, you can create an acl category by specifying a descriptive array for it:

<?php
'plCategory' => [
  'acl' => [
    'description'  => _('ACL'),
    'objectClass'  => ['gosaAcl','gosaRole']
  ]
],

An ACL category only contains a description and a list of LDAP objectClasses (for some historical reason)