Few weeks ago, I moved the template of a Dolibarr module into a dedicated project.
After talking about future of Dolibarr, I finally had to change my mind because the project become more ambitious :
The template was now introduced into the distribution of Dolibarr, but inside the official sources as a dedicated module.
You will find it in v6 into directory called: htdocs/modulebuilder/template
Why ?
Having an external tool to help developers to build a module is not enough. We must also be able to add new screen, new menu, new permission, new objects, new tables and add more features even if we are not an experienced developer. And we should be able to do it on the fly. For this reason, a new module was started in v6, called "Module Builder". There is for the moment only a preview in "development" status (and it will remain with this status in v6) to show how it can work but in future, an integrator will be able to enhance Dolibarr directly from Dolibarr screens with very very few coding. To achieve this goal, we need to have a complete template and code generator directly embedded into official sources. That's the reason why the module template is back into Dolibarr but no more into the "dev" directory (this directory is not provided with official distribution), but into a dedicated directory, always available with other features, currently
htdocs/modulebuilder/template
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