[Solar-talk] find all available apps

Jeff Surgeson solar at 3hex.com
Tue Apr 15 10:00:56 CDT 2008


> >  What is the easiest way to get a list of available vendor apps?
> >
> >  Solar::parent()?
>
> There is no way for Solar to know all the apps it can run. The only
> thing Solar knows is that it needs to look for page controllers where
> you've told it to.
>
> That said, I've implemented something very close to what you want with
> Abovo. When you access a URL it stores that app name in the db and
> scans that app for info with reflection (available actions, action
> names, app name and description). It then stores this info in the
> cache for later use.
>
> The code doesn't work with vanilla Solar :-(
>
> http://code.google.com/p/abovo/source/browse/trunk/Abovo/Menu.php

Thanks Antti, was looking at your menu app and I think I will have to go that 
way, was just hoping for something a little less complex and without the need 
for db access.

Thanks again

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Jeff Surgeson / South Africa


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