Use OID+ base as universal platform?

[danielmarschall]

A VERY far milestone/idea I had for some time:

With OID+ we have a very nice system with a flexible UI, a treeview on the left side, public page plugins, a goto box on the top right, languages, and much more. Wouldn't it be great if completely different applications use the same interface and technology? For example, you could even create a CRM or ERP software by re-using the OID+ interface!

But this would be a very hard task, so it is in the far far future, or might be scrapped.

• The UI name OIDplus should be configurable. A developer should be able to customize it to give it any name. Internally (class names), OIDplus can stay, I think.
• We need to look at the core (includes/classes/ as well as the PHP files in the base directory) and find out what has to do with OIDs / Objects / RAs, and try to encapsulate them into the publicPage plugin "000_objects, 001_ra" or something.
• The core should not have hardcoded plugin types like raPages or adminPages, since they are dependant on the concept of OID+. The only real page plugin is publicPages. Remember, raPages and adminPages are called by the publicPage "Login". So, if you remove the Login-Plugin, then you also lose raPages and adminPages, so the core should not require them.
• Try to find out which plugin types are required for operating the UI and Core system. I think they are database, sqlslang, design, language, publicPages. Only they need to be in the core.
• Then, if you remove ALL plugins, the system should still work, just showing an UI with an empty tree on the left, but not crash or refuse to load.

[wehowski]

I would suggest to add the changes step by step so we do not have great breaking change. By developing in an API driven way, you do not have to change the OIDplus branding or class names or so, as the UI can be designed by several OIDplus-API using SDKs/Softwares? E.g. Although there can be "Core Modules"/Plugins developed by you/me/the OIDplus core team..., which may be available by default? E:g. for CMS/contact form, RDAP (coming by me), and the plugins existing already...!?