[php] How to check module is enabled?

The only way I’ve yet come across is using an unassigned one-off object like:

if( (new WC_Gateway_Braintree_AngellEYE)->is_available() ) 
{// do my stuff}

but still, instantiating an almost 2k lines class with a lot of stuff going on feels overkill and might have unwanted ramifications. Way better if the given method was just static:

WC_Gateway_Braintree_AngellEYE::is_available()

Please advise.

Hey, Angell! It isn’t critical, but would be really enlightening to learn there’s an advance (to me) technique to properly access your implicit WC_Gateway_Braintree_AngellEYE class object. Thanks!

After some more tinkering, I now see a reason for my previous confusion.

$available_gateways = WC()->payment_gateways->get_available_payment_gateways() doesn’t work for ‘paypal_express’ ! Oddly enough, checking enabled=yes in the UI just returns an empty array for PPE. Don’t know why PPE is singled out that way?

On the other hand, WC()->payment_gateways->payment_gateways() does return an array with all installed (i.e. enabled and disabled) gateways, from where one could figure out easily which ones are enabled, like this:

$available_gateways = WC()->payment_gateways->payment_gateways();
$is_enabled_ppe = $available_gateways['paypal_express']->get_option('enabled');
$is_enabled_bt  = $available_gateways['braintree']->get_option('enabled');

Thanks for the pointing me out to the right direction!

Oliver, look at who wrote the very last one 😉