Title: Dynamic path to settings.xml/settings.php when running embedded Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Dynamic path to settings.xml/settings.php when running embedded * Resolved [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/) * Hello! * We run Types embedded in some of our themes because of a multi user-setup. This is because the sites use the same theme, but with separate uploads-folders and databases. * To do this, we follow the instructions of copying the embedded-folder into the theme. * But as we keep our plugins automatically updated with composer in the plugins directory we would like to include the embedded-folder directly instead of “detaching” the embedded files. * By “detaching” i mean that we move the emdedded folder out of the plugins-folder that is automatically updated from the WordPress-repository. * As far as i can see this in itself is not a problem, but we would like to keep the settings.php and settings.xml-files in a separate versioned folder. For example these files could be kept in a folder in the theme. * Basically there should be an option to specify where the config-files are located when embedding Types. * The lines that are affected: embedded/functions.php:125 embedded/functions.php: 136 embedded/functions.php:144 * A proposal would be to do like this: * Create a extra constant that falls back to “WPCF_EMBEDDED_ABSPATH”. * ``` if ( file_exists( WPCF_EMBEDDED_ABSPATH . '/settings.php' ) ) { if(!defined('WPCF_EMBEDDED_CONFIG_ABSPATH')) { define('WPCF_EMBEDDED_CONFIG_ABSPATH', WPCF_EMBEDDED_ABSPATH); } require_once WPCF_EMBEDDED_ABSPATH . '/admin.php'; require_once WPCF_EMBEDDED_CONFIG_ABSPATH . '/settings.php'; $dismissed = get_option( 'wpcf_dismissed_messages', array() ); if ( in_array( $timestamp, $dismissed ) ) { return false; } if ( $timestamp > get_option( 'wpcf-types-embedded-import', 0 ) ) { if ( isset( $_GET['types-embedded-import'] ) && isset( $_GET['_wpnonce'] ) && wp_verify_nonce( $_GET['_wpnonce'], 'embedded-import') ) { if ( file_exists( WPCF_EMBEDDED_CONFIG_ABSPATH . '/settings.xml' ) ) { $_POST['overwrite-groups'] = 1; $_POST['overwrite-fields'] = 1; $_POST['overwrite-types'] = 1; $_POST['overwrite-tax'] = 1; $_POST['post_relationship'] = 1; require_once WPCF_EMBEDDED_INC_ABSPATH . '/fields.php'; require_once WPCF_EMBEDDED_INC_ABSPATH . '/import-export.php'; $data = @file_get_contents( WPCF_EMBEDDED_CONFIG_ABSPATH . '/settings.xml' ); wpcf_admin_import_data( $data, false, 'types-auto-import' ); update_option( 'wpcf-types-embedded-import', $timestamp ); wp_safe_redirect( esc_url_raw(admin_url() )); } else { $code = __( 'settings.xml file missing', 'wpcf' ); wpcf_admin_message( $code, 'error' ); } } ``` * This would be great as the developer could specify the placement of the config- files himself, but by default it looks for the config-files in embedded folder. * Hope to hear from you, all feedback is appreciated 🙂 Creds to you for a very nice plugin and WP Toolset! Best regards, Robert Sather. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Thread Starter [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778265) * Bump * Thread Starter [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778319) * Bump * Thread Starter [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778321) * Bump * [Jan Štětina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jans-1/) * (@jans-1) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778324) * Hello Robert Sather, I’m very sorry for the late reply. * Can you please post this to our Toolset support forum [https://wp-types.com/forums/forum/support-2/](https://wp-types.com/forums/forum/support-2/)? Unfortunately we can’t handle complex feature requests here. * Thread Starter [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778328) * I’m sorry, i am not a paying customer. Is there any other way to contact you guys about this proposed edit? * Plugin Author [Jan Štětina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaantar/) * (@zaantar) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778329) * I see. We have a free forum as well, although I am not sure if it would make a difference in this case… please hold on a little longer, I will see what can I do about this. 🙂 * Thread Starter [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778330) * Thank you **very** much! 🙂 * Anonymous User 14808221 * (@anonymized-14808221) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778331) * You can post this Feature request in the [Free Forum](https://wp-types.com/forums/forum/general-and-pre-sales-questions/) for Types. * You can register for free [here](https://wp-types.com/support/register/). * Then, a Supporter will escalate your request and the DEV will evaluate whether or not to implement this feature. * Thank you for your cooperation! * Plugin Author [Jan Štětina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaantar/) * (@zaantar) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778332) * Beda, thank you for the clarification! In this case, however, I think we can escalate this directly, it is a small change without side-effects, and it makes good sense. * Thread Starter [Robert S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robsat91/) * (@robsat91) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-path-to-settingsxmlsettingsphp-when-running-embedded/#post-6778343) * Hello again! * I can see that this has now been implemented. Thank you very much for great support. Hopefully other people will take use of this functionality as well. * Have a nice day! 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