Extend "Email Mailbox" with a new Tab

Hello @till and other dev users.
I want to extend the Mail module and add a new tab inside "Email Mailbox" with additional options to use with an external APP, in this case Nextcloud, but I want to do this without modifying the core files, so, mi question is:

Is it possible to do that? I can't find any info/tutorial in the ISPConfig documentation or hook in the code to do that. I know I can make a new module outside the Mail module and implement this functions, but what I want is a tab inside the Email Mailbox, so when I create a new email for a user I can add options like cloud quota etc. and get that information using the remote API with a modded version of the Nextcloud-ISPConfig module developed by @theWeird

Thank you!

 

There is a custom module created by our member that eases a creation of new sites in a single tab without modifying ISPConfig core but I think it was quite old and was added to the main menu tab instead of any sub menu tab. However, I can't remember where the module thread is for now as I am on mobile, but may be other can help you to find it.

 

Thank you @till and @ahrasis for your help.

There is indeed a lot of information there to do what I need.
I'm going to continue the discussion there and leave this open to post the results.

 

Update. The plugin is finished and work ok. Some SS at the end. I'm going to post the plugin when I finish the Nextcloud part (working right now in this).
Continuing with the core files and my comment here:
https://forum.howtoforge.com/thread...-integrated-upstream.92752/page-2#post-459307

This isn't true, all the custom fields are loaded from the db and sent to the remote API call, so, no problem here, but I modded the loadFormDef function in the core file remoting_lib.inc.php to allow the plugins "fields" to be loaded. I don't see where this fields are used, but if the code say it must be loaded, well, the custom fields must be loaded to, right?

Expand: remoting_lib.inc.php loadFormDef function:

PHP:

    //* Load the form definition from file. - special version for remoting
    // module parameter is only for compatibility with base class
    function loadFormDef($file, $module = '') {
        global $app;

        include $file;

        // Search for module name by path because $_SESSION['s']['module']['name']
        // isn't set in a remote call.
        $module_path = array_reverse(explode('/', $file));
        $module_name = isset($module_path[2]) && $module_path[1] == 'form' && preg_match("/^[a-z]{2,20}$/i", $module_path[2]) ? $module_path[2] : '';

        // Allow plugins to be loaded
        if ($module_name) {
            $app->plugin->raiseEvent($module_name.':'.$form['name'] . ':on_remote_before_formdef', $this);
        }

        $this->formDef = $form;

        unset($this->formDef['tabs']);

        //* Copy all fields from all tabs into one form definition
        foreach($form['tabs'] as $tab) {
            foreach($tab['fields'] as $key => $value) {
                $this->formDef['fields'][$key] = $value;
            }
        }
        unset($form);

        // Allow plugins to be loaded
        if ($module_name) {
            $app->plugin->raiseEvent($module_name.':'.$this->formDef['name'] . ':on_remote_after_formdef', $this);
        }

        $this->dateformat = 'Y-m-d'; //$app->lng('conf_format_dateshort');
        $this->datetimeformat = 'Y-m-d H:i:s'; //$app->lng('conf_format_datetime');

        return true;
    }

 

Hello.
Tested and working fine here
The ISPConfig Plugin: https://github.com/mediabox-cl/ispconfig-nextcloud-plugin
The Nextcloud APP: https://github.com/mediabox-cl/nextcloud-user-ispconfig-api

Please, test and report. Thank you.

 

Thank you for sharing.

 

@till I did not pay attention to the license.
Sure I can change it. I think I must do this just for the ISPConfig plug-in, or both?

Thank you for the blog post!!!

 

Perfect. I do this today.

@till I made a lot of changes before release. Please update the images in the blog with this:

 

Ok. License changed to https://opensource.org/license/BSD-2-Clause
At last here https://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig/ the "Open Source software (BSD license)" links to this license.

Thank you!

 

Hi @remkoh,
I can't reply to you in this thread: https://forum.howtoforge.com/threads/acme-sh-dns-challenge.94445/
If you want to install the Nextcloud plugin, you must give the ALTER privilege to the ISPConfig user because this is the only way it can modify the mail_user table, at last this is the only option when I write the plugin. After the install, you can disable this privilege again. The only thing the plugin does with that privilege is add additional fields to the mail_user table, nothing more.

 

A simple bash script to install the plugin would make everyones life a whole lot easier.
Then you can't forget to change privileges like I did, leave behind unnecessary extended privileges and would be made sure every install step is executed.
- Verify script is executed on the master/panel server
- Copy files to the appropiate location
- Change ownership
- Look up MySQL master database host, master database name and root credentials
- Alter 'mail_domain' and 'mail_user' tables using found info
- Finish

Though still no explanation is given on why an effort would be made to alter the mail_user table while something totally unrelated is executed. That doesn't seem right.

 

Installation steps seem to be missing steps for multi node environments.
Tables 'mail_user' and 'mail_domain' not only need to be altered in the master node's db but also in db('s) of the mail node(s).

 

Ok. I'm not here to argue... You have the full source code. Have a nice day.