From 7c470f0be9a0b4a9f8625333345c8b994487b504 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hypolite Petovan <mrpetovan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 12:05:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Base Module class

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 src/BaseModule.php | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/BaseModule.php

diff --git a/src/BaseModule.php b/src/BaseModule.php
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index 0000000000..08f7755545
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/BaseModule.php
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+<?php
+
+namespace Friendica;
+
+/**
+ * All modules in Friendica should extend BaseModule, although not all modules
+ * need to extend all the methods described here
+ *
+ * @author Hypolite Petovan mrpetovan@gmail.com
+ */
+abstract class BaseModule extends BaseObject
+{
+	/**
+	 * @brief Initialization method common to both content() and post()
+	 *
+	 * Extend this method if you need to do any shared processing before both
+	 * content() or post()
+	 */
+	public static function init()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Module GET method to display any content
+	 *
+	 * Extend this method if the module is supposed to return any display
+	 * through a GET request. It can be an HTML page through templating or a
+	 * XML feed or a JSON output.
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function content()
+	{
+		$o = '';
+
+		return $o;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Module POST method to process submitted data
+	 *
+	 * Extend this method if the module is supposed to process POST requests.
+	 * Doesn't display any content
+	 */
+	public static function post()
+	{
+		// goaway('module');
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Called after post()
+	 *
+	 * Unknown purpose
+	 */
+	public static function afterpost()
+	{
+
+	}
+}