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One thing that is really easy with Drupal modules is creating a settings page with hook_menu and the form api. Settings can easily be stored and retrieved using variable_get and variable_set.
What is the basic overview of how I would go about doing the equivalent process for a CiviCRM extension? I learned a little about extensions but I'm still not clear on this essential part.
Any suggestions for extensions that I could look at that have settings pages other than the payment processors since I assume they use the built-in page?

Just saw this and I am going to check out this one: http://civicrm.org/extensions/civiconfigure but still want to put this question out there for suggestions.

I think that would be an amazing extension to civix. Unfortunately I have no clue how to add it.

It would also be really super nice if there was a nice simple global extensions config array we could add settings to. Something like:

$config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton();
$ext_config = &$config::getExtensionConfig();
$ext_config['my.fully.qualified.extname']['mysetting'][] = 'myval';
$config::saveExtensionConfig();
or

$config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton();
$my_ext_config = $config::getExtensionConfig('my.fully.qualified.extname');
$my_ext_config['mysetting'][] = 'myval';
$config::saveExtensionConfig('my.fully.qualified.extname', $my_ext_config);

Hmm, actually somebody's added step 3 which I don't understand - you should just be able to use the custom templates/php dirs as described at the link in the prerequisites section.

EDIT: Oh I see, at the bottom of step 3 it exlains. So you have a choice: either use step 3 or omit it and use the regular civi custom dirs.