BeforeSaveItem or AfterSaveItem Plugin Events PLEASE?!!!

I'm using Flexicontent to develop an online fiction delivery system. I'm now at the point I need to 1) know when an item has been successfully saved to #__content and 2) to access that item data (using an array var of course) for my own custom plugin code.

The problem is, I cannot find ANY documentation on how to write Flexicontent-related plugins that do something besides display content. I DESPERATELY need to write plugins that handle "OnBeforeSave" and "OnAfterSave" type events, where I can access the article item array (i.e., $item).

Is there any documentation anywhere to explain how to do this? Should this plugin be done as a SYSTEM plugin (I already found out that Joomla's built in before and after save content triggers do not work with Flexicontent as the core com_content extension does not submit to the content table)? Or, is there a way to do this as an actual content plugin?

Or has someone developed a similar plugin I can study?

I need to have this done very soon for my project. Just point me in the right direction, please. Thanks!

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This is the only plug-in documentation here:
www.flexicontent.org/features/plugins.html#fields


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Thanks for the referral, but in the end I just added hacks to the item model file to initiate com_content's native event triggers where appropriate (i.e., OnAfterSaveContent). So far, this appears to be working.

Hopefully, full third party event triggers will be implemented someday soon.

Brat wrote: Thanks for the referral, but in the end I just added hacks to the item model file to initiate com_content's native event triggers where appropriate (i.e., OnAfterSaveContent). So far, this appears to be working.

Hi, do you want to post your code? I need to do similar & am not sure where to start!
Thanks,

yes brat any news ?

Sorry for the long delay. I had to dig through my files and notes to find what I did, since I admittedly haven't worked on this in a while.

NOTE: This was done for Flexicontent 1.5.3, so please don't just copy and paste this code for the latest version!

The file in question is:
In that file you'll find that a lot of triggers are set up but not really activated.

Around line 1001 or thereabouts in that file, you should see code similar to the following:

Underneath that, I added the following:

I literally just looked at code pertaining to Joomla's native content and added it accordingly.

Again, when I tested it last, this appeared to be working. Still, I'd advise experimenting with this in a safe environment before using it on a live site.