thom has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks

I'd like to write a module for Webmin and I found this How to on the project's website.

Does anybody know another tutorial on writing Webmin modules?

Thanks in advance, Thom

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(jeffa) Re: Writing Webmin Modules
by jeffa (Bishop) on May 01, 2003 at 14:35 UTC
    I sure don't. Since that tutorial is actually on the Webmin site and discusses it's 'API calls', i would say it is a necessary read -- but take the code given with a grain of salt. It's really bad stuff: 
    do '../web-lib.pl';

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    and 
    require './foobar-lib.pl';             
&header($text{'list_title'}, "");      
print "<hr>\n";

print "<table border>\n";              
print "<tr $tb>\n";
print "<td><b>$text{'list_user'}</b></td>\n";
print "<td><b>$text{'list_real'}</b></td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";

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    send out all kinds of red flags. Someone should update that tutorial with more aesthetic and up-to-date Perl code.

    jeffa

    L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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      This is exactly what I thought after reading it.

      What is even more frightening is, that most Webmin modules are written in this style...

      thom

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