---
title: "Add new custom module in PHP-Nuke"
description: "In this article I'm going to teach you how to add a new custom module to your PHP-Nuke website. In PHP-Nuke, modules are used in order to build up the menu items of your site. You could create for..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/php-nuke/add-a-new-custom-module-in-php-nuke/
date: 2013-03-14
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["PHP-Nuke", "Website"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Add new custom module in PHP-Nuke

In this article I’m going to teach you how to add a new custom module to your PHP-Nuke website.

In PHP-Nuke, modules are used in order to build up the menu items of your site. You could create for example a module that has some simple text content and a link to a remote website. Visitors to your site would be able to get to this page by clicking on the module’s link in your **Modules** menu.

## Creating a new module in PHP-Nuke

Following the steps below I’ll walk you through creating a new custom module called **Support**, that simply has some text and then a link back to our support center.

1. [Login to your cPanel](/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/)
2. Under the *Files* section, click on **[File Manager](/support/edu/cpanel/using-file-manager-in-cpanel/)**, select **Web Root** and click on **Go**.
3. Navigate to the directory you’ve installed PHP-Nuke to, then go into the **modules** directory.
4. In the top menu, click on **+ New Folder**, then name the folder what you’d like to name your module. In this case I’ve named mine **Support**, then click on **Create New Folder**.
5. Now click on the newly created **Support** modules folder.
6. Next click on **+ New File**, name your new file **index.php**, then click on **Create New File**.
7. Now right-click on the newly created **index.php** script, and select **Edit**.
8. This is the example code I have used for my module: <?php if (!eregi(“modules.php”, $PHP_SELF)) { die (“You can’t access this file directly…”); } $index = 1; require_once(“mainfile.php”); $module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__)); get_lang($module_name); include(“header.php”); echo “<p>This is a test module!</p>”; echo ‘<a href=”https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support”>InMotion Support Center</a>’; include(“footer.php”); ?>
9. Now click on **Save Changes** up at the top-right.

## Activating newly created module in PHP-Nuke

Now that you’ve created a new module, we need to login to PHP-Nuke to set it to active. Follow along with these steps to accomplish that.

1. Login to your PHP-Nuke admin dashboard.
2. In the 2nd row, 4 icons over, click on **Modules**.
3. Scroll down till you see the newly created **Support** module, and click on the cog icon to the far-right of it to enable the module.
4. Now if you navigate back to your PHP-Nuke main page, you should see under the **Modules** menu the new **Support** one, and clicking on it will take you to the page that includes our text and link!

You should now understand the very basics of creating a new custom module to use with PHP-Nuke.