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								  <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Account modules</title>
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								<h1 style="text-align: center;">Account modules<br>
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								<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="base module" src="images/lam_baseModule.png" style="width: 531px; height: 207px;"><br>
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								<div style="text-align: left;">The account modules control all the
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								functionality which is specific for LDAP accounts or parts of them.
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								E.g. they define the account detail pages where the user can edit
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								accounts, the profile editor sections and much more. They are the core
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								of LAM.<br>
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								All account modules are saved in <span style="font-weight: bold;">lib/modules/</span>.<br>
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								If your module needs any include files etc. please save it in <span style="font-weight: bold;">lib/modules/<name of your module>.</span><br>
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								Please take a look at the <a href="mod_index.htm">module HowTo</a> for
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								an example to write your own modules.<br>
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								The complete specification for the module interface can be found <a href="phpdoc/modules/baseModule.html">here</a>.<br>
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								<h2>Superclass</h2>
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								All <span style="font-weight: bold;">account modules</span> should be
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								subclasses of the <a href="base_module.htm">baseModule</a>.<br>
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								This allows them to benefit from the meta data in the baseModule and
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								reduces very much the code since not the complete module interface has
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								to be implemented.<br>
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								<h2>Module detection</h2>
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								New modules can simply be copied to <span style="font-weight: bold;">lib/modules</span>.
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								LAM will check what files are inside the directory and provide the user
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								new modules automatically.<br>
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								There is no extra configuration file.<br>
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