Doubts about development in the AtoM

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Gregory Bevilaqua

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Jul 22, 2015, 2:59:32 PM7/22/15
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Hello, Good Afternoon,

I'm a Software Developer at the Federal University of Ceará (BRAZIL), and after a talk with Daniel Flores started using the Atom 2.1 system.

I am a PHP programmer. I wonder if you could send me some study material, towards the development of themes, modules, plugins, etc ... I would like to contribute to its development.


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Dan Gillean

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Jul 22, 2015, 3:14:32 PM7/22/15
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Hi Gregory,

Thanks for posting this question to the AtoM User Forum.

We do not have comprehensive documentation for plugin development, but there are many resources I can point you to that will help you get started.

AtoM is built in PHP, using the Symfony 1.x framework and the Propel ORM - so you will need to familiarize yourself with Symfony 1.4 to develop new features or modules:

In general, we recommend that developers adding features to AtoM follow Symfony's plugin development model. Most of the existing modules in AtoM and ICA-AtoM have been built as plugins - developing this way makes them easier to maintain in the long-term. Here are some of the best Symfony 1.x resources on Plugin development:

There is also a Symfony plugins page that lists "1453 symfony plugins developed by 609 contributors." This can be a great reference, to see how others using Symfony have developed their plugins for other projects. See:

All of AtoM's plugins can be found here, for reference: https://github.com/artefactual/atom/tree/qa/2.3.x/plugins

For themes, we recommend the same approach - develop the custom theme as a separate plugin which extends the base arDominionPlugin theme. We have included the ArchivesCanada theme as a reference for developers, so they can study the code and see how it extends the base theme. See:


On our new wiki, we have some general resources that might help you as well. Here are some general resources about our code repository, contributing code, our own code review process, and some of the code standards we at Artefactual try to adhere to for consistency:

I've also recently started a page where I am trying to document other community development efforts - this way, you can look at how others have approached plugin, theme, or feature development. There is some information on each, as well as links to the relevant GitHub repositories where the code is hosted:


Finally, we've had a few discussions about development in our User Forum in the past - here are some links to some previous threads, that might be useful:

I hope that's enough to get you started! Let us know if you have other questions.

Kind regards,

Dan Gillean, MAS, MLIS
AtoM Product Manager / Systems Analyst,
Artefactual Systems, Inc.
604-527-2056
@accesstomemory



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