Hi there,
I'm busy with a 'template manager' plugin for your cms, and am a little stuck. I've gone through some of the examples you have shown on your site and I'm still drawing a blank. Here's what I've done...
1. I've created a folder called imaginet
2. inside this folder I've created a sub folder called template_manager
3. inside template_manager I've created two sub folders install and uninstall as well as two files manager.php and items_area.php
4. I've inserted the code as per your example renaming where required

What's happening:
The plugin installs fine, and shows up in back end fine

Question:
1. how does the cms read the plugin, as I don't know where to insert my file extractor.

Objective: basically to allow the user to download a template from your site and using the plugin be able to install (extract the zip into correct themes folder ) and add theme to db and indicate if active theme which then re-writes the config as the active theme. the extracting etc is not the problem. its understanding how the plugin is read by the system to know how to add my functions etc...

Many thnks in adv...
Mark

Your implementation method leads to security hole. If you allow to upload a zip archive that will be extracted and integrated into the system, that means you give a full control over the server.

If you trust people who will use the system, then fine. But I suggest to install all themes you like and let user only chose one of preinstalled ones.



I hope this tutorial will answer your question: http://www.impresspages.org/docs/workin ... form-post/