Adding web resources into plugins

The web resources plugin module, like the resource module we just saw, allows for the defining of downloadable resources. The difference is that the web resources are added at the top of the page in the header with the cache-related headers set to never expire.

An additional advantage of using the web resources module is that we can specify the resources to be included in specific contexts within the application.

How to do it…

The root element for the web resource plugin module is web-resource. It supports the following attributes:

Name	Description
key	The only mandatory attribute. This should be unique within the plugin.
state	This indicates whether the plugin module should be disabled by default or not. The default value enabled. value="disabled" will keep the plugin disabled at startup.
i18n-name-key	The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin module.
name	The human-readable name of the web resource.
system	This indicates...