Title: Access plugin file
Last modified: December 12, 2017

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# Access plugin file

 *  [jkepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkepler/)
 * (@jkepler)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/)
 * Hi
 * I’ve created successfully several plugins for wordpress. But one piece of code
   is missing:
 * – how do I access externally (from my main site for instance) a file within the
   plugin dir (in my client dir) let’s say as a GET request?
 * Basically I want to call a plugin file (for example user_info.php) with the correct
   url, and verify the registration data using a GET request – whith my admin passord
   and username of course.
 * Any help is very welcomed 🙂
 * Kind regards
 * JKepler

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9775989)
 * You can certainly access any php file and pass it parameters, but allowing for
   a login seems like a really, really, really bad idea to me. You’d be passing 
   your admin credentials in clear text (and they’d be preserved in the site’s log).
 * Is this a real user login or a backdoor for you as the plugin dev?
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 *  Thread Starter [jkepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkepler/)
 * (@jkepler)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9776065)
 * Hi Steve
 * Yes you’re right. It is not a visual login of course. It’s a simple backdoor 
   to my plugin to retrieve registration and authentication important information–
   including debug logs. If you could help me out, I would apreciate it very much.
 * Kind regards
 * JKepler
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9776102)
 * Backdoors are a big no-no. [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#7-the-plugin-may-not-%e2%80%9cphone-home%e2%80%9d-or-track-users-without-their-informed-explicit-opt-in-consent](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#7-the-plugin-may-not-%e2%80%9cphone-home%e2%80%9d-or-track-users-without-their-informed-explicit-opt-in-consent)
 * I strongly suggest you review this with someone on the plugins review team.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9776229)
 * Any backdoors are absolutely disallowed. You don’t have any plugins hosted here,
   but be aware that if you were to add in a security hole like that, your account
   may be banned.
 *  Thread Starter [jkepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkepler/)
 * (@jkepler)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9777553)
 * Hi,
 * I was looking at the docs you kindly gave me, and I must confess I’ve explained
   everything wrong – my fault.
 * What I’m trying to do is get an answer from a plugin file if I give the proper
   user and pass.
 * Example: I call the file register.php from within the plugin dir like this
 * [http://…/register.php?user=admin&password=mypassword&data=2](http://…/register.php?user=admin&password=mypassword&data=2)
 * The plugin responds if the user and pass are correct. And returns, for instance,
   the double of data – in this case 4.
 * Sorry for the confusion.
 * Kind regards
 * JKepler
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [jkepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkepler/).
 *  Thread Starter [jkepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkepler/)
 * (@jkepler)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9777932)
 * Hi again
 * I was able to achieve part of my objective through the REST API of WP. Here’s
   the code:
 * function prefix_get_endpoint_time() {
    $t = “My message”; return rest_ensure_response(
   $t ); } function prefix_register_example_routes() { register_rest_route( ‘myplugin/
   v1’, ‘/getinfo’, array( ‘methods’ => WP_REST_Server::READABLE, ‘callback’ => ‘
   prefix_get_endpoint_time’, ) ); } add_action( ‘rest_api_init’, ‘prefix_register_example_routes’);
 * I call [http://mydomain.com/wp/wp-json/myplugin/v1/getinfo](http://mydomain.com/wp/wp-json/myplugin/v1/getinfo)
   and get “My message”, which is good 🙂
 * My doubt now is how do I pass arguments to the function and how to retrieve them
   for authentication. I think the arguments ‘user’ and ‘password’ should be in 
   the array? But how? And how do I retrieve them in the prefix_get_endpoint_time
   function?
 * Sorry for the trouble.
 * Kind regards,
 * JKepler
 *  Thread Starter [jkepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkepler/)
 * (@jkepler)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9778627)
 * Hi again
 * Problem solved. The routine becomes (for example):
 * function prefix_get_endpoint_time( $request ) {
    $user = $request[‘user’]; $pass
   = $request[‘pass’]; /* routines here saved in $result */ return rest_ensure_response(
   $result ); } function prefix_register_example_routes() { register_rest_route(‘
   myplugin/v1’, ‘/getinfo’, array( ‘methods’ => WP_REST_Server::READABLE, ‘callback’
   => ‘prefix_get_endpoint_time’, ) ); } add_action( ‘rest_api_init’, ‘prefix_register_example_routes’);
 * with the call:
 * [http://mydomain.com/wp/wp-json/myplugin/v1/getinfo?user=admin&pass=123456](http://mydomain.com/wp/wp-json/myplugin/v1/getinfo?user=admin&pass=123456)
 * Kind regards,
 * JKepler
 *  [Beee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beee/)
 * (@beee)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9893471)
 * I’m looking to do something similar but I keep getting a 500 error. Even when
   I copy the default code from WP docs…. Dito with your code… Any tips/tricks ?
 *  [Beee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beee/)
 * (@beee)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-plugin-file/#post-9893648)
 * I placed the functions in the wrong place so they were hooking to early/late,
   so disregard my previous comment 🙂

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