added better plugin skeleton and added documentation to some of the examples

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/examples/events/basic.php b/documentation/examples/events/basic.php
index 91704e60b..ca2762344 100644
--- a/documentation/examples/events/basic.php
+++ b/documentation/examples/events/basic.php
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 <?php
+/**
+ * This snippet demonstrates how to register for an event. It dumps the
+ * parameters that the handler receives to the screen. The third argument
+ * of the handler function is an object that is related to the event. For
+ * the 'init', 'system' eveny, it is null.
+ */
 
 elgg_register_event_handler('init', 'system', 'example_event_handler');
 
-function example_event_handler($event, $type, $params) {
+function example_event_handler($event, $type, $object) {
 	var_dump($event);
-	var_dump($object_type);
-	var_dump($params);
+	var_dump($type);
+	var_dump($object);
 
 	return true;
 }
-
-