Link in Admin System section using manifest.php

[mpeet]

Hi, I’m working on creating an installable package file, nearly completed. I can’t find any documentation on how to create a link in the Admin section of Suite, System area that links to a custom module, exactly the way that the OAuth entry works - any pointers to code greatly appreciated

[mpeet]

anyone? Surely this must be fairly simple to accomplish? I have seen information like the following:

‘administration’ =>
array
(
array
(
‘from’ => ‘/administration/mycustommodule_adminoption.php’,
),
),

but NO information on what is contained in the referenced php file? What specifies the section that the code is added to, what code is in the file?

Any assistance/example code gratefully accepted

[mpeet]

For anyone that scrolls through these forums endlessly and seldom finds an answer or gets a reply, I managed to find the following, place this code in your manifest.php

‘administration’=> array(
array(‘from’=>’/menus/administration.ext.php’,
),
),

Create something like the following in your administration.ext.php file and place it in the menus folder of your module files/folder structure

$admin_option_defs=array();
$admin_option_defs[‘Your Module’][‘blah blah’]= array(‘Configuration Settings’,‘LBL_YOUR_SECTION’,‘LBL_YOUR_RELEASE’,’./index.php?module=YourModule&action=index’);
$admin_group_header[]= array(‘LBL_MODULE_TITLE’,’’,false,$admin_option_defs, ‘LBL_MODULE_DESC’);

Don’t forget your language files for all the labels etc. It will create a clickable link in the Admin page. I have no idea if this is the ‘correct’ manner to do this, however, it works and I haven’t found any other source materials associated with this function

Cheers and good luck