Plugins

About

The plugin-system of Lychee allows you to execute scripts, when a certain action fires. Plugins are hooks, which are injected directly into Lychee. They only affect the back-end and can't modify the front-end.

Use Cases

• Automatically watermark photos on upload
• Automatically set albums public
• Write metadata changes back to the original photo
• …

How to create a plugin

1. Create a folder in plugins/ (e.g. plugins/ExamplePlugin/)
2. Create an ExamplePlugin.php file within the new folder and add the following content:

<?php

namespace ExamplePlugin;

use SplObserver;
use SplSubject;

class ExamplePlugin implements SplObserver {

	public function __construct() {

		/**
		 * Add code here if wanted
		 * __construct() will be called every time Lychee gets called
		 * Make sure this part is performant
		 */

		return true;

	}

	public function update(SplSubject $subject) {

		/**
		 * Check if the called hook is the hook you are waiting for
		 * A list of all hooks is available online
		 */

		if ($subject->action!=='Photo::add:before') return false;

		/**
		 * Do something when Photo::add:before gets called
		 * Database::get() => Database connection of Lychee
		 * Settings::get() => Settings of Lychee
		 * $subject->action => Called hook
		 * $subject->args => Params passed to the original function
		 */

		return true;

	}

}

3. Add the class name to the database of Lychee

Select the table lychee_settings and add the external fully qualified name to the value of plugins (e.g. ExamplePlugin\ExamplePlugin). Please ensure that the folder has the same name as the namespace and the file the same name as the class.

Divide multiple plugins with semicolons: ExamplePlugin\ExamplePlugin;ExampleTwoPlugin\ExampleTwoPlugin.

Available hooks

About :before and :after

Hooks named :before will be executed prior to the original function. Hooks named :after will be executed after the original function.

Album::add:before will be called when the user creates a new album in Lychee. The album doesn't exist at this moment. Album::add:after will be called after the album has been created.

Album

These hooks are called from php/modules/Album.php.

Name	Description
Album::add:before	User adds album
Album::add:after
Album::get:before	User opens album
Album::get:after
Album::getAll:before	User opens album overview
Album::getAll:after
Album::getArchive:before	User downloads album
Album::getArchive:after
Album::setTitle:before	User renames album
Album::setTitle:after
Album::setDescription:before	User sets description
Album::setDescription:after
Album::getPublic:before	User makes album public or private
Album::getPublic:after
Album::setPassword:before	User sets password
Album::setPassword:after
Album::checkPassword:before	Lychee checks if password is correct
Album::checkPassword:after
Album::merge:before	User merges albums
Album::merge:after
Album::delete:before	User deletes album
Album::delete:after

Photo

These hooks are called from php/modules/Photo.php.

Name	Description
Photo::add:before	User uploads photos
Photo::add:after
Photo::createThumb:before	Lychee creates thumbs
Photo::createThumb:after
Photo::adjustFile:before	Lychee adjusts files
Photo::adjustFile:after
Photo::get:before	User opens photo
Photo::get:after
Photo::getInfo:before	Lychee reads the metadata of an image
Photo::getInfo:after
Photo::getArchive:before	User downloads photo
Photo::getArchive:after
Photo::setTitle:before	User renames photo
Photo::setTitle:after
Photo::setDescription:before	User sets description
Photo::setDescription:after
Photo::setStar:before	User stars photo
Photo::setStar:after
Photo::getPublic:before	Lychee checks if photo is public
Photo::getPublic:after
Photo::setPublic:before	User shares photo
Photo::setPublic:after
Photo::setAlbum:before	User moves photo to album
Photo::setAlbum:after
Photo::setTags:before	User sets tags
Photo::setTags:after
Photo::delete:before	User deletes photo
Photo::delete:after

Session

These hooks are called from php/modules/Session.php.

Name	Description
Session::init:before	Someone opens Lychee
Session::init:after
Session::login:before	Someone logs in
Session::login:after
Session::logout:before	User logs out
Session::logout:after

Import

These hooks are called from php/modules/Import.php.

Name	Description
Import::server:before	User imports photos from the server
Import::server:after