Creating New Widgets

Class Based Widget

To create a class-based widget named slugfish create a file with the following contents:

  <?php
   
  namespace Zotlabs\Widget;      
  
  class Slugfish {        
  
  function widget($args) {        
  
  ... widget code goes here.      
  ... The function returns a string which is the HTML content of the widget.      
  ... $args is a named array which is passed any [var] variables from the layout editor      
  ... For instance [widget=slugfish][var=count]3[/var][/widget] will populate $args with      
  ... [ 'count' => 3 ]        
  
  }    
 }

The resultant file may be placed in widget/Slugfish/Slugfish.php or Zotlabs/SiteWidgets/Slugfish.php. It also may be linked from a git repository using util/add_widget_repo.

Traditional Function Based Widget

If you want a widget named slugfish, create widget/widget_slugfish.php containing:

<?php    
function widget_slugfish($args) {    
.. widget code goes here. See above information for class-based widgets for details.    
}