create an api for modules

[rallek]

Think about the module https://github.com/zikula-modules/News. There we do have the possibility to store media with the news article. If this media is now stored in an own root collection that would open a lot of possibilities. For news the structure might be: root news collection | year | month | article. That is similar to the archive of news.

Another potential candidate is https://github.com/zikula-modules/DizkusModule. There is always the wish to attach media in forum posts. Also for Dizkus we would need an own root collection, visible or not.

The root module collection should be configuarble if it is shown when calling the media module root collections or not. There the structure might be root dizkus collection | Main forum | sub forum | ... | sub sub forum | thread

Other modules will follow for shure like Avatar, postcalendar, pages, and so on. And modulestudio can offer the media handling via this api as well.

Somehow this is possible via Scribite already using a WYSIWYG editor. But not clear structured. After a while you will have a totally messed up structure.

With this API we are very close to that media module we are dreaming over years about ;-)

No idea how dificult this whish is to fulfill. But Christmas is comming soon (and next year again 😃 )