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1831 <p>Package Installation Plugins (PIPs) are interfaces to deploy and edit content as well as components.
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1832 <div class=
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1833 <p class=
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<a class=
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"#built-in-pips" title=
"Permanent link">#
</a></h2>
1840 <th>Description
</th>
1845 <td><a href=
"acl-option/">aclOption
</a></td>
1846 <td>Customizable permissions for individual objects
</td>
1849 <td><a href=
"acp-menu/">acpMenu
</a></td>
1850 <td>Admin panel menu categories and items
</td>
1853 <td><a href=
"acp-search-provider/">acpSearchProvider
</a></td>
1854 <td>Data provider for the admin panel search
</td>
1857 <td><a href=
"acp-template/">acpTemplate
</a></td>
1858 <td>Admin panel templates
</td>
1861 <td><a href=
"bbcode/">bbcode
</a></td>
1862 <td>BBCodes for rich message formatting
</td>
1865 <td><a href=
"box/">box
</a></td>
1866 <td>Boxes that can be placed anywhere on a page
</td>
1869 <td><a href=
"clipboard-action/">clipboardAction
</a></td>
1870 <td>Perform bulk operations on marked objects
</td>
1873 <td><a href=
"core-object/">coreObject
</a></td>
1874 <td>Access Singletons from within the template
</td>
1877 <td><a href=
"cronjob/">cronjob
</a></td>
1878 <td>Periodically execute code with customizable intervals
</td>
1881 <td><a href=
"database/">database
</a></td>
1882 <td>Updates the database layout using
<a href=
"../database-php-api/">the PHP API
</a></td>
1885 <td><a href=
"event-listener/">eventListener
</a></td>
1886 <td>Register listeners for the event system
</td>
1889 <td><a href=
"file/">file
</a></td>
1890 <td>Deploy any type of files with the exception of templates
</td>
1893 <td><a href=
"language/">language
</a></td>
1894 <td>Language items
</td>
1897 <td><a href=
"media-provider/">mediaProvider
</a></td>
1898 <td>Detect and convert links to media providers
</td>
1901 <td><a href=
"menu/">menu
</a></td>
1902 <td>Side-wide and custom per-page menus
</td>
1905 <td><a href=
"menu-item/">menuItem
</a></td>
1906 <td>Menu items for menus created through the menu PIP
</td>
1909 <td><a href=
"object-type/">objectType
</a></td>
1910 <td>Flexible type registry based on definitions
</td>
1913 <td><a href=
"object-type-definition/">objectTypeDefinition
</a></td>
1914 <td>Groups objects and classes by functionality
</td>
1917 <td><a href=
"option/">option
</a></td>
1918 <td>Side-wide configuration options
</td>
1921 <td><a href=
"page/">page
</a></td>
1922 <td>Register page controllers and text-based pages
</td>
1925 <td><a href=
"pip/">pip
</a></td>
1926 <td>Package Installation Plugins
</td>
1929 <td><a href=
"script/">script
</a></td>
1930 <td>Execute arbitrary PHP code during installation, update and uninstallation
</td>
1933 <td><a href=
"smiley/">smiley
</a></td>
1937 <td><a href=
"sql/">sql
</a></td>
1938 <td>Execute SQL instructions using a MySQL-flavored syntax (also see
<a href=
"../database-php-api/">database PHP API
</a>)
</td>
1941 <td><a href=
"style/">style
</a></td>
1945 <td><a href=
"template/">template
</a></td>
1946 <td>Frontend templates
</td>
1949 <td><a href=
"template-listener/">templateListener
</a></td>
1950 <td>Embed template code into templates without altering the original
</td>
1953 <td><a href=
"user-group-option/">userGroupOption
</a></td>
1954 <td>Permissions for user groups
</td>
1957 <td><a href=
"user-menu/">userMenu
</a></td>
1958 <td>User menu categories and items
</td>
1961 <td><a href=
"user-notification-event/">userNotificationEvent
</a></td>
1962 <td>Events of the user notification system
</td>
1965 <td><a href=
"user-option/">userOption
</a></td>
1966 <td>User settings
</td>
1969 <td><a href=
"user-profile-menu/">userProfileMenu
</a></td>
1970 <td>User profile tabs
</td>
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