Creating a Custom Module for MediaSpace

Kaltura MediaSpace Module Structure

A module of MediaSpace is an implementation of MVC web application, based on Zend-Framework folder structure and naming convention.

This section describes the folder structure of a MediaSpace module including typical files in each folder.

In the following example, replace "{module}" with the name of your module. Notice that the replacement should be case-sensitive, so if you see {Module} and your module's name is test you should replace with Test.

{module}/
         controllers/
                     IndexController.php
         models/
                {Module}.php --- the model file of the module, without it the module will not be functional at all
         views/
               scripts/
                       index/ --- as the name of the controller we defined
                             index.phtml --- view script for indexAction within IndexController
                             other.phtml --- view script for otherAction within IndexController
         assets/ --- css, js and images to be used by the module.
         default.ini --- default settings file of the module.
         admin.ini --- settings file of the module to expose configuration options in configuration management UI
         module.info --- information file of the module to present data in configuration management UI 

Model Class

The model class in a MediaSpace module is responsible for "declaring" each and every feature the module extends.

Extending a MediaSpace feature through a module is done by implementing one of the interfaces (your_KMS_site.mediaspace.kaltura.com/kb/tab/interfaces} that are available in MediaSpace.

Interfaces

Your model class should implement any of the interfaces, according to the features you would like to provide through your module.

A basic model class of the 'mymodule' module would look like the following:

class Mymodule_Model_Mymodule extends Kms_Module_BaseModel
{
}

The abstract class Kms_Module_BaseModel implements 2 interfaces:

• Kms_Interface_Model_ViewHook - allows modules to provide their HTML output to be included in core views of MediaSpace.
• Kms_Interface_Access - every module that has a controller must declare the access rules for its actions to integrate with MediaSpace's roles.

To learn and review up to date interfaces, select the Knowledge Base tab in the MediaSpace Admin and then select Interfaces.

Additional NameSpaces

If you need to add additional independent classes to your module, you can store them in one of the following namespaces that MediaSpace includes as part of the auto-loading process.

Note that you have to keep ZF naming convention so files will be found by the autoloader.

• plugins
• services
• views/helpers

For example, if you want to add a class which communicates with a 3rd party API (i.e. service) you should add your file under 'services' folder (in your module).

Your folder/file structure would look like:

{module}/
         controllers/
                     ...
         models/
                {module}.php
         views/
               scripts/
                       ...
         assets/
                ...                       
         services/
                  Thirdparty.php
         admin.ini
         default.ini
         module.info

Your class name would look like:

class {Module}_Service_Thirdparty
{
}

Note that {Module} should be replaced with the name of your module with the first character in upper case.

Module Assets

Modules can contain js, css, flv, and image files to be used in their views. The files are located in the module's 'assets' folder.

To access the files, use a URL of the form:

http://[kms url]/[build number]/[module name]/asset/[file name]