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Creating an Exponent Module: A walkthrough

Create an Exponent Module - Part 1

In this tutorial we are going to create a module to keep track of an album collection. While this module might not be very useful, the concepts we are learning will be. Using the methods in this tutorial, you can write a module for Exponent that can do almost anything.

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Create an Exponent Module - Part 2

Ok, we have our basic module down and now we would like to have our module display the albums in different ways. Let’s use two examples in our article:

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Adding Tags Support to a Module

How to integrate Exponent tags into a module. 

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Adding E-Alerts Support to a Module

How to integrate Exponent Email Alerts into a module.  As you’ll see it’s not difficult to add E-Alerts support to a module. 

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Adding Categories Support to a Module

How to integrate Exponent categories into a module.  Obviously, each module MAY display or act on categories in a different fashion, however most of these steps still apply.

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Adding Tweet Button Support to a Module

How to integrate Twitter Tweets button into a module. 

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Adding Facebook LIke Button Support to a Module

How to integrate Facebook Like button into a module. 

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Custom Exponent Menu

It may be desirable to create a custom menu within the Exponent system menu to allow quick access to commands in your module (or any action within Exponent CMS).

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