Customize 101

Customize via Plugins

To ensure your customizations are preserved during updates, it’s recommended to create a custom private plugin instead of directly editing RamTV’s core files. Updates to RamTV might overwrite modified core files, resulting in lost changes.

How to Create a Plugin?

While full documentation for plugin development is not yet available, this guide covers the basic steps to create a plugin and add custom CSS/JS files to the front-end—a highly requested feature

Follow these 5 steps

You can alternatively download this zip file and extract it to be able to skip 1-4:

https://my.busyowl.co/files/custom_plugin.zip

1. Create a New Plugin Folder

1. Navigate to the ~ramtv/plugins directory.
2. Create a new folder named custom_plugin (or any unique name for your plugin).

2. Create the bof.php File

1. Inside the custom_plugin folder, create a PHP file named bof.php.
2. Add the following code to define basic information about your plugin

<?php
$Config = [
    'version' => '1.0.0', // Required: Plugin version
    // Add additional details if needed
];
?>

3. Create the _handshake.php File

1. In the same folder, create another PHP file named _handshake.php.
2. Use this file to connect your plugin’s functionalities with RamTV. Add the following example code:

<?php

bof()->listen("theme", "get_after", function ($method_args, &$config) {

    if (empty($config["assets"])) $config["assets"] = [];
    if (empty($config["assets"]["js"])) $config["assets"]["js"] = [];
    if (empty($config["assets"]["css"])) $config["assets"]["css"] = [];

    $version = bof()->plug->read("plugin", "custom_plugin")["version"];;

    $config["assets"]["js"][] = array(
        "name" => "custom",
        "path" => "custom.js" . "?bof_version=" . (!production ? "dont_cache" : $version),
        "base" => web_address . "plugins/custom_plugin/assets/",
        "dir" => false,
        "version" => $version,
        "skipNameCheck" => true
    );

    $config["assets"]["css"][] = array(
        "name" => "custom",
        "path" => "custom.css?bof_version=" . (!production ? "dont_cache" : $version),
        "base" => web_address . "plugins/custom_plugin/assets/",
        "dir" => false,
        "version" => $version
    );

});

?>

4. Add Your Custom CSS/JS Files

1. Inside the custom_plugin folder, create a subdirectory named assets.
2. Create a file named custom.css for custom styles.
3. Create a file named custom.js for custom JavaScript.
4. Add your desired CSS and JS code to these files

5. Activate your plugin

1. Make sure custom_plugin folder exists inside ~ramtv/plugins folder
2. Open phpMyAdmin. Select RamTV's database and then _bof_setting table
3. Search for `var=plugins.` Edit `val` and append ,custom_plugin to the list