Pyrocms - Step by step tutorial to create widget in pyrocms

Hi all, today i am going to tell you how to create a pyrocms widget in some easy steps. Widgets are a small program to show some text or some login form etc on your website. The widget we are going to develop in this tutorial, also outputs some simple text on sidebar. So here are the steps,


1. First you have to download and install pyrocms package from pyrocms website. You can do so by clicking here.

2. Now extract the package in your www folder of your wamp server and follow installation steps shown in installation wizard.

3. Next you have to create a folder in widgets folder. Let say we create a folder my_first_widget in widgets folder. In my case this is located here C:\wamp\www\pyrocms\addons\shared_addons\widgets\

4. Now you have to create a file called my_first_widget.php in my_first_widget folder. Be sure to use the same name as for your widget folder name. This is very must for your widget to work.

5. Next put following code in my_first_widget.php file and save it,

 <?php  
 class Widget_my_first_widget extends Widgets  
 {  
   //The following information will appear when you will install the widget  
   public $title = 'This is my first widget';  
   public $description = 'Puts default text.';  
   public $author = 'Asad Mehmood';  
   public $website = 'http://our-knowledge-base.blogspot.com/';  
   public $version = '1.0';  
 }  
 ?>  

6. Now you have to create a folder in my_first_widget folder and name it as "views".

7. Next create a file display.php in views folder and put following code in that file.

 <?php echo "This is my first widget"; ?>  

8. Now login to pyrocms admin panel and go to widgets section. Drag and drop my_first_widget widget in sidebar tray. Then refresh your front end page and see "This is my first widget" text displayed in sidebar.

Thats it, please feel free to post your comments and share this tutorial if you find this useful for you.
Thanks