Modules

What are they?

A module is a program that adds functionality not otherwise present in MDP and requires MDP for integration. Just as personal computers have an operating system (Linux, The Macintosh OS, Windows, or others) and have programs that are added (say Photoshop) that add functionality not otherwise present, so it is with MDP and modules. Photoshop uses the operating system (OS) printer driver, clipboard, video display and other components of the OS. It cannot run on its own. You can think of MDP as the OS and modules as the programs that are added to it.

Some modules are also stand alone programs that have had modules created to integrate them with MDP.

Administration Modules List Regenerate Module name Display name Description Directory State Actions AddStory Add news story Add news to your site NS-AddStory  Active Deactivate | Edit Admin Admin Admin NS-Admin  Active Deactivate | Edit Admin_Messages Admin Messages Admin Messages NS-Admin_Messages  Active Deactivate | Edit amazon Amazon Deluxe Deluxe Amazon Module amazon  Active Deactivate | Edit Autolinks AutoLinks Autolink module Autolinks  Active Deactivate | Edit AutoTheme AutoTheme HTML Theme System AutoTheme  Active Deactivate | Edit AvantGo AvantGo news for your PDA AvantGo  Inactive Activate | Remove | Edit Banners Banner Admin banners NS-Banners  Inactive Activate | Remove | Edit Blocks Blocks Admin your blocks Blocks  Active Deactivate | Edit businesscard Business Card Module for posting a business card businesscard  Active Deactivate | Edit calendar Calendar Calendar Module calendar  Active Deactivate | Edit classifieds Classifieds classifieds classifieds  Active Deactivate | Edit Comments Comments Admin comments NS-Comments  Active Deactivate | Edit Credits Credits Credits modules Credits  Active Deactivate | Edit daily_archive Daily Archive Displays archives of the news in a daily fashion daily_archive  Active Deactivate | Edit Downloads Downloads Downloads Module Downloads  Active Deactivate | Edit Dyn_users Dynamic Users Dynamic Users Dyn_users  Active Deactivate | Edit Ephemerids Ephemerids Admin ephemerids NS-Ephemerids  Active Deactivate | Edit Errore Error Manage Errors Errore  Active Deactivate | Edit ew_filemanager EW FileManager EW FileManager ew_filemanager  Active Deactivate | Edit FAQ FAQ FAQ for your site FAQ  Active Deactivate | Edit gallery Gallery Photo and Movie gallery gallery  Active Deactivate | Edit Groups Groups Admin groups NS-Groups  Active Deactivate | Edit Languages Languages Admin languages NS-Languages  Active Deactivate | Edit Legal Legal Legal Module Legal  Uninitialized Initialize | Remove | Edit LostPassword Lost Password Lost password NS-LostPassword  Active Deactivate | Edit MailUsers Mail users Mail users NS-MailUsers  Active Deactivate | Edit MDcontact MDcontact Contact Control Module MDcontact  Active Deactivate | Edit MDMenus MDMenus Create menus MDMenus  Active Deactivate | Edit memberpages Member Pages Member Pages for MDPro memberpages  Active Deactivate | Edit Members_List Members List Member list Module Members_List  Active Deactivate | Edit Messages Messages Private Messages Module Messages  Active Deactivate | Edit Multisites Multisites Run multiple sites sharing the same database NS-Multisites  Uninitialized Initialize | Remove | Edit MySQL_Tools Database tools Backup tool MySQL_Tools  Active Deactivate | Edit News News News on your site News  Active Deactivate | Edit NewUser New User New user module NS-NewUser  Active Deactivate | Edit Permissions Permissions Permissions module Permissions  Active Deactivate | Edit pncUserPoints pncUserPoints User Points Mod pncUserPoints  Active Deactivate | Edit pnHome pnHome pnHome module pnHome  Active Deactivate | Edit Polls Polls Admin polls NS-Polls  Active Deactivate | Edit postbbcode Postbbcode PostBBCode module postbbcode  Active Deactivate | Edit Quotes Quotes Random Quote Admin Quotes  Active Deactivate | Edit Ratings Ratings Ratings Module Ratings  Active Deactivate | Edit Recommend_Us Recommend Us Recommend site/Send articles module Recommend_Us  Active Deactivate | Edit Referers HTTP Referrer Admin referrers HTTP NS-Referers  Active Deactivate | Edit Reviews Reviews Reviews Reviews  Active Deactivate | Edit reviews reviews Categorized Reviews Module reviews  Uninitialized Initialize | Remove | Edit RteMulti RteMulti Editor Module RteMulti  Uninitialized Initialize | Remove | Edit Search Search Search Module Search  Active Deactivate | Edit Settings Settings Settings module NS-Settings  Active Deactivate | Edit Stats Statistics Statistics module Stats  Active Deactivate | Edit subjects Subjects Subjects module subjects  Active Deactivate | Edit Submit_News Submit News Submit News Module Submit_News  Active Deactivate | Edit Topics Topics Extended topics-module Topics  Active Deactivate | Edit topx Most Popular Most Popular Items Module topx  Active Deactivate | Edit User Admin Users Members module NS-User  Active Deactivate | Edit User_Points User Points User points module NS-User_Points  Active Deactivate | Edit Web_Links Links Links Module Web_Links  Active Deactivate | Edit Wiki Wiki Wiki Module Wiki  Uninitialized Initialize | Remove | Edit xmlrpc Xmlrpc XML-RPC module xmlrpc  Active Deactivate | Edit Your_Account Your Account Your account module NS-Your_Account  Active Deactivate | Edit

See How To Install Modules in the documentation section

Usage

MDP comes with several modules, though many are inactive and will not function without action on your part. By clicking on Administration and then Modules, you will see two choices, List and Regenerate. By clicking on List, you can see a list of modules and their status, which will be Initialize, Activate, Deactivate, or Update. When you have uploaded a new module, click on Regenerate so the presence of the new module is recognized and the module listing is updated.

Initialize - Prepares a module for use. It does this by creating any tables and module variables in the database required by the module.

Activate - Makes the module active (functional) and ready for use.

Deactivate - Disables the module and turns it off. All files and variables remain intact, including those in the database. Clicking on Activate will reverse this action.

Update - Updates the files to the current version. It does so by integrating new tables and module and user variables when upgrading to newer versions of a module to a newer version of a module.

Adding Modules

After uploading the files of a module into its subdirectory under the modules directory, it will be recognized once you regenerate the module listing.

Removing Modules

Deactivating a module does not remove it from your system. All files remain intact. If you wish to completely remove a module, deactivate it first. Next, click on Remove. This will remove the module's tables and variables from the database. Finally, remove all files from the module's subdirectory, along with the module's subdirectory name, via FTP or other means.

The Edit Feature

By clicking on Edit, an administrator may modify some of the parameters for a module. The module name and description may be changed. Additionally, the following features may be enabled or disabled:

• AutoLinks (if they are enabled elsewhere),
• Ratings
• Wiki Encoding

Making the admin icon show up in the admin menu

See the Admin Menu page for information on this.