Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development

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"Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development"

php
base
foo

This will create two folders, base and foo, in the plugin folder mylibrary.
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Note that we have to include a file with a plugin
element, base.php.
To import elements from this pseudo-library we can use the JLoader class. This class
is what sits behind the regularly used jimport() function, which we use to import
parts of the Joomla! library.
Let's create a function called myimport() to import library elements from the plugin
group mylibrary.
function myimport($path)
{
return JLoader::import($path, JPATH_PLUGINS . DS . 'mylibrary');
}
A good place to create this function is in the base.php file. So, bearing in mind our
folder structure looks something like this:
how do we use the myimport() function? This example demonstrates how we would
import all of the files in mylibrary/foo/bar:
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('mylibrary', 'base');
myimport('foo.bar.*');
The first line of the example only needs to be used once.

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