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Mahdi Khadher

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Registered: 2023-04-24

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Adding a new button in GLPI

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to add a new button under the Management tree for the super-admin main interface that I'm gonna develop eventually. I've been digging into the files for so long and I ended up in a closed path. What I want to know is simply where to find the file responsible for rendering the home page in GLPI so I can add the button and work my way up from there.

cconard96

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Re: Adding a new button in GLPI

I would hope/recommend that you do this as a plugin and not by modifying the GLPI source code which would cause issues with updating and potentially plugins.

To start, the Plugin development documentation can be found here:
https://glpi-developer-documentation.re … index.html

There is an empty plugin provided as a starting point here:
https://github.com/pluginsGLPI/empty

Most of the existing GLPI plugins are open source, so you can refer to them for ideas too.
For adding a new menu option, it sounds like you are looking for the "menu_toadd" hook.

For my Web Resources plugin, this is the code I have in the init function of setup.php to add a new link:
$PLUGIN_HOOKS['menu_toadd']['webresources'] = [$config['menu'] ?? 'plugins' => 'PluginWebresourcesDashboard'];
For your example, you should replace the "[$config['menu'] ?? 'plugins'" part with just 'management' and "PluginWebresourcesDashboard" with the name of the PHP class that will represent this interface.

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Mahdi Khadher

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Registered: 2023-04-24

Posts: 6

Re: Adding a new button in GLPI

Hi again, first I want to thank you a lot for you're reply, your message was very helpful for me and I learned a lot already. I decided to make a plugin locally for me to add my new feature and work on it. I made the files needed for the plugin to work but when I add the plugin in the plugins directory in GLPI and I go to the plugin interface I can't see my plugin being added.
For starters I wanted to add a button in the menu side bar under the Management tree that displays lets say a simple message (nothing crazy), so I made 2 files for  that being "setup.php" that contains the plugin_version function containing all information about the plugin and a function that adds the button needed via $PLUGIN_HOOKS that calls another function in the "myplugin.php" file that echo's the message.
I wanted to know what do I have to add or change in order for my plugin to show up in the plugins interface in GLPI.
Note that when I download a plugin online and I add it to GLPI it works perfectly fine.