Plugin Dependencies

  • Resolved elyobo

    (@elyobo)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    One potentially useful feature for plugin dependencies would be to support conflicting plugins, e.g. plugin X can be enabled or plugin Y can be enabled, but not both. In the dependency sense, plugin X requires not plugin Y and vice versa.

    A related concept could be applied to normal dependencies, where plugin X requires either plugin Y or plugin Z.

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/plugin-dependencies/

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  • Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, this is already possible with the development version, by using the “Provides:” header.

    Thread Starter elyobo

    (@elyobo)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Sounds great, are there docs for the headers somewhere? I take it that Provides: would implement the second feature, is there anything that implements the conflicting feature?

    Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    No docs yet, since it’s a development version. I should try to release it though, as it’s basically done.

    RichardWPG

    (@richardwpg)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    It will be great to be able to try it out

    Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Done: http://scribu.net/wordpress/plugin-dependencies/pd-1-1.html

    Thread Starter elyobo

    (@elyobo)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Only come across one issue so far, line 164 in plugin-dependencies.php doesn’t check that the array index exists before using it, throwing out a pile of notices for those that aren’t suppressing them. This then blocks the redirect header so we get a pile of notices on screen and nothing else.

    Simple fix, either suppress errors or check first, e.g.

    $deps = @self::$dependencies[ $dep ];

    or

    $deps = isset(self::$dependencies[ $dep ]) ? self::$dependencies[ $dep ] : array();

    Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    That shouldn’t happen. Please paste the error messages and the header of the plugin(s) that are causing them.

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