Recycle Bin

Walid

Recycle Bin

A Flarum extension to manage deleted (hidden) discussions.

With Recycle Bin you can:

list all hidden discussions
restore a hidden discussion (unhide)
forever delete a hidden discussion (remove from db)
Mass restore & delete discussions

🐞 Known issues :

Search filter only works with complete words (returns a empty list for partial words) and isn't limited to discussion titles but also returns discussions where the searched word is found in its messages (replies) too.
Mass restore or delete need a full page refresh to update de list and total number of hidden discussions (the page refresh is implemented but it's not ideal, you'll have to wait for it after cofirming your mass action)

Notes

This is my very first Flarum extension
Developed and tested on Flarum 1.8.5
Extention settings page based on the core UserListPage.tsx (Users settings page).
Developped this with the help of AI (mainly ChatGPT, Cody & Gemini)

Installation

Install with composer:

composer require walsgit/recycle-bin:"*"

Updating

composer update walsgit/recycle-bin:"*"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Links

luceos

Walid what a beautiful addition to Flarum 👏 I see you do a count on all discussions when visiting the admin page, it might be wise delegating that to the settings page of your extension to improve performance on larger communities.

Anonymous41

Walid it is a cool extention thanks i want to learn how to make extentions but i lost in the less 😃

Walid

luceos Thanks! I'll try to fix that.

Walid

luceos fixed it, hopefully (v 0.1.6)

SkakashiS

Cool, thanks you! Maybe I will use it when my community makes bigger. ^.^

Xkyer

Congratulations on your first extension.

Walid

Anonymous41 I whish there was a one place with all the details to start (and up to date) but here is where I started:

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6320-extension-developers-show-us-your-workflow/3
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1608-extension-development-using-composer-repositories-path
I used Flarum-CLI to setup the files & folder structure flarum/cli
and look at the official docs (even though I wish it was more noob-friendly) https://docs.flarum.org/extend/ & API refs https://api.docs.flarum.org
Finally, look at some of the core code or other extensions' code for specific parts that you want to replicate, and copy & modify it. Ask questions on the Discord or this forum, and you can use AI like I did, but beware, 8 times of 10 their solutions aren't correct or if they work, they're note optimal so there's a lot of trial and error and iterations (but that's what coding is too I guess)

As soon as I can, I think I'll post my workflow for this extension on that first link discussion.

Anonymous41

Walid thanks