Conference Plugin issue

[kamaldua]

I am trying to create a simple plugin for joining another conference ( not BigBlue Button). It always gives wrong url for conference. Upon investigation found that file /appScs/lib/lib.conference.1.3.plugins.php has hardcoded bigblue button.
hence confernce additionl plugin can not be made except BigBlueButton

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function getUrl($idConference,$room_type) {
		$conference = $this->roomInfo($idConference);

        $pg = new PluginManager('Conference');
        $classconference = $pg->get_plugin('ConferenceBBB');// PluginManager::getPlugins($plugin_conference['name']); #PLUGIN_SYSTEM_OLD


    $url = $classconference ->getUrl($idConference,$room_type);

		return $url;
	}

[max]

I think this is because BBB has traditionally been natively built-in in the old Docebo CE and now in Forma Lms.
But I can ensure you that you can create as many additional plugins that you want for other videoconference systems, we already have plugins for Zoom, Adobe, GTWebinar, Teams, Keymeeting.

[alfa24]

It should be $classconference = $pg->get_plugin($room_type);

[kamaldua]

but this is the case at many places.
I am very new to forma , should custom plugin files be confined only under plugin folder or it can also be places else where as I see in case of BBB.

[alfa24]

Plugins should be confined and the core should not contain hardcoded references as BBB.

[max]

Plugins should be confined and the core should not contain hardcoded references as BBB.

You are absolutely right, and that what has happened with all the other available plugins.
But it was the first thing I wrote, that BBB is a kind of "legacy" that we never bothered to modify.
Also, it is possible to create other plugins for videoconference that override that setting. Don't know how, but they exist.

[kamaldua]

Thank you for your inputs