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Answered SDK, Advanced or Traditional for extra-development ?

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    bgfun68 Reply #1, 11 years, 10 months ago
    Hi Guys,

    I would like to develop an extra with custom tables.

    Do I have to use the "SDK" or "Advanced" version, I think "Advanced" should be enough, right ?

    I come here because i dont find answer in the manual. I just find the information that SDK is provided with some uncompressed .js files, and that the Advanced version is required to put the core/ outside of web root.

    But I still don't know for sure which is required for custom tables (like Doodle or Storefinder for example)

    I wish you All the Best smiley

    This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

    [ed. note: bgfun68 last edited this post 11 years, 10 months ago.]
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      sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 10 months ago
      SDK is for Manager theme development.

      Advanced is for security - renaming and moving the core folder, renaming the other top-level folders and renaming the config.inc.php file.

      For Extra development, you're probably better off with the Traditional installation.
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        bgfun68 Reply #3, 11 years, 10 months ago
        thank you !
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          BobRay Reply #4, 11 years, 10 months ago
          For Extra development, you might take a look at MyComponent. If you will be building more than one package, or if the package you build will updated over time, it's definitely worth learning to use MC, imo.
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