Movable Type Developer Guide: Table of Contents

• Movable Type Developer Guide
  • Using this Guide

• Introduction to Plugins
  • The Basic Structure of a Plugin
    • Other Common Directories
    • Naming and Packaging Conventions

  • Plugin Packaging: Makefile.PL and Plugin Manifests
  • Storing Your Plugin in Source Control
  • The Plugin Directory
• Plugin Basics: Building Your First Movable Type Plugin
  • The Movable Type Registry: What it is, and how it works.
  • A YAML Primer: Yet Another Markup Language
    • Basic YAML Data Structures

  • Registering Your Plugin: Basic Plugin Metadata
  • Adding Your First Configuration Directives
  • Adding a Simple Template Tag
    • Your Plugin Module
    • Template Tag Handler
    • Inline Documentation

  • Summary and Conclusion

• Intermediate Plugin API Topics: Taking Your Plugin to the Next Level

  • Configuration Directives: A Complete Reference
    • Registering File Paths
    • Handlers
    • Configuration Directive Types
    • Aliases
    • Accessing Configuration Properties in Perl
    • Tip: When is it best to use a configuration file?

  • Template Tags - A Complete Reference
    • What is a template and a template tag?
    • Types of Template Tags
      • Function Tags
      • Block Tags

    • Declaring Template Tags
    • The Template Context
    • Parsing Template Tag Arguments
  • Template Tag Modifiers
    • Passing Multiple Parameters into a Tag Modifier

  • Text Filters
    • Text Filter Handler
    • Conditional Text Filtering

  • Custom OpenID Login Screens
    • Why Custom OpenID Login Screens are Needed
    • Registering Your OpenID Endpoint
    • Authentication Handler

  • Registering Additional Ping Servers
  • Scheduled Tasks
    • Turning on Scheduled Tasks

  • Creating a New Spam/Junk Filter
    • Callbacks for Handling Spam and Ham

  • Custom Custom Field Types
  • Upgrade Functions
  • Schwartz Workers
  • Rich Text Editors

• Movable Type 5 and 6

  • Permission API
  • The Basic Structure of a Theme
    • Core Theme Elements
    • Theme Framework from plugins
    • Theme Registry Keys

  • Everything UTF8

• Movable Type 6

  • Data API
  • Chart API

• Advanced Developer Topics

  • Events and Movable Type Callbacks
    • The list of callbacks and events
    • Events in Movable Type
    • Event Categories
    • Registering Callbacks
    • Event Handlers
    • Error Handling
    • Creating Your Own Callbacks

  • Delving into Movable Type’s Perl API
    • Objects, Data Structures and Persistence
      • Interacting with MT::Objects: loading, creating and saving
      • Creating Your First Object
      • Extending Existing Objects
      • Getting and Storing Data for a Custom Data Type

    • Interfaces
      • MT::Taggable
      • MT::Scorable
      • MT::Auth
      • MT::Revisable (MT5)

• Tips and Tricks for Developers
  • Working with the Registry
  • Debugging Movable Type
    • The Activity Log
    • Logging to the Activity Log
    • DebugMode
      • Prerequisites
      • Turning On Debug Mode
      • Debugging Template Tags
      • Plugin Compatibility

  • Performance Optimization
    • Related Configuration Directives
    • Process Memory Commands
    • Log Format
    • Log Rotation
    • Sample Output