An addon for MT 4.x that aims to provide compatibility with most Melody plugins by providing backports for certain popular API features in Melody.
Currently, this plugin augments the Movable Type plugin API with the following Melody-originated features:
-
The
plugin_classconfig.yamlattribute through which you can designate a class from one of your plugin's modules to be the plugin's canonical MT::Plugin subclass. This allows you to override inherited methods (e.g.save_config/load_config) of MT::Plugin to provide custom behavior. -
The
MT::App::query()feature which is the new way of retrieving the query object in Melody since the old ways of interacting with it (e.g.$app->param()and$app->{query}) conflict with CGI::Application to which Melody intends to migrate. Providing this method saves a lot of extra typing that was necessary to determine whether to use the old methods (for MT) or the new (for Melody)
- Movable Type v4.x
This plugin is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install this plugin follow the instructions found on this
page EXCEPT that the
Melody-compat.pack directory must be installed into the addons
directory and not the plugins directory.
If you do not have an addons directory, you can simply create one in the root
of your MT directory ($MT_HOME/addons).
There is no configuration for this plugin.
No known bugs or limitations
None currently but when new important API features arise in Melody, we will consider adding them if it will make Melody developers' lives easier.
If you are having problems installing or using the plugin, please check out our general knowledge base and help ticket system at help.endevver.com.
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