http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: plugin installation en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:26:26 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress/page/2#post-10167 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:24:46 +0000 amethystdragon 10167@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hmmm I'm trying to make use of this plugin but I'm having some issues - The plugin shows up in the admin and I have enabled it and pulled down the latest list of plugins available - No problems there..</p> <p>However, when I try to install a plugin off the list - it creates the appropriate directory and informs me that the plugin has been installed but when I go to activate it - I don't see it in the plugin list and when I check the contents of the directory - its empty - the permissions on the directory are set to 755</p> <p>Anyone any ideas? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress/page/2#post-10112 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:30:26 +0000 _ck_ 10112@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>feature suggestion:</p> <p>change the "install" column to "action" and in addition to the "install" link, create a "readme" link with a link directly to the svn readme. The full path and filename should already be known. If you keep it outside of trac, it can be viewed directly in the browser since the correct headers are sent.</p> <p>ie. <a href="http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/readme.txt" rel="nofollow">http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/readme.txt</a></p> <p>optionally you could use the curl/fsockopen fetch and format the readme.txt into pretty html with colours and bold so it's easier to read.</p> <p>(you could then also include a direct download link in the "action" column so it would be three lines: "readme" "install" "download" ) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress/page/2#post-10056 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:47:54 +0000 Null 10056@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I kinda would like a page that loads all plugins made by me, so I can have a page on my website showing the plugins made by me with description and download button, just like ck's page does.</p> <p>Can you release it as a (stand alone) plugin perhaps? As far as I know, SamBauers is admin only... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress/page/2#post-10052 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:10:04 +0000 _ck_ 10052@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It's just a proof of concept for play. I wanted a list and "borrowing" your dataset seemed like the fastest way.</p> <p>If you changed how your class functions work it would break but I can make the source available to whomever wants. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress/page/2#post-10047 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:09:14 +0000 sambauers 10047@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>&gt; hmmm nice, i miss a download button</p> <p>You'll find that in the original plugin. : )</p> <p>@ _ck_</p> <p>Is this just a proof of concept or are you planning to fork this plugin and start a new one? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-10033 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:14:52 +0000 Null 10033@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>hmmm nice, i miss a download button :) (in the plugin list to download the latest files) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-10032 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:06:30 +0000 _ck_ 10032@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thought you might like what I re-used your nifty class for:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.nfshost.com/forums/view/available-plugins" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.nfshost.com/forums/view/available-plugins</a></p> <p>Makes a public (sortable) list of all available bbPress plugins.<br /> (Well at least the ones that are in the SVN)</p> <p>Be sure to click on the headers for javascripty-goodness.</p> <p>(this also shows off my little technique to make "views" output any page you want without hacking the core at all) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9550 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:49:18 +0000 _ck_ 9550@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Sounds like the pre-complied version list to download would be best then. It also allows you to do emergency holds or rollbacks if something in the SVN is discovered to be spyware or malware of somekind. </p> <p>The version list could then be gzipped and even mirrored dynamically on trusted sources (like the supposed triple mirror wordpress.com runs on) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9549 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:38:03 +0000 sambauers 9549@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Yes, I know all that, but I was talking about Subversion clients, which I don't know as much about.</p> <p>I also don't know if LiteSpeed can do subversion, LiteSpeed doesn't do DAV at last check.</p> <p>Subversion repositories tend to be set up more cautiously, so performance doesn't really get a look in. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9545 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:57:26 +0000 _ck_ 9545@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Web compression is on an "offered/accepted" handshake of sorts.<br /> It would not affect clients that do not support gzip.</p> <p>Everytime IE or Firefox (etc.) requests a webpage, it tells the server "I support gzip" in the headers and then if the server supports it, it sends it that way. </p> <p>Technically compression can be forced through the server - if trac is under the same litespeed server as wordpress/bbpress then it's just a matter of making sure it's enabled.</p> <p>A quick test shows both the svn+trac are using apache, so depending on which version it's either a matter of building with mod_gzip (for apache 1.3.x) or if apache 2.0 they need to just add a couple of easy httpd.conf directives.</p> <p>Really though, Matt knows how good litespeed is over apache, both the trac+svn should on litespeed. I bet it could even work with the free 150 connection version instead of buying a license. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9528 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:37:08 +0000 sambauers 9528@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>My other option is to make the update check more atomic. Here, your pagination idea could help. So instead of fetching all the plugins, I could just fetch the first page, then the second etc. etc. on request. More complicated to code, but it might be the best long term solution to keep the best of both worlds. I could also add a way to list installed plugins first, or even have a separate view of installed plugins.</p> <p>I wouldn't think Trac is faster, it has a few more overheads on the server side I think. I don't think it will come down to that though.</p> <p>Neither the Trac site nor the SVN repository use compression on their output, so gzip is useless, but that was a good suggestion. I'm not sure the SVN repository could use gzip anyway as it would potentially get in the way of some SVN clients, I'm not sure SVN even supports compression techniques like that (although it probably should). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9470 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:43:35 +0000 _ck_ 9470@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>&gt;For a lark I pointed the plugin to the Wordpress Plugin SVN. It got about 1/4 of the way through retrieving the list of plugins and died (script timeout). </p> <p>With many people accessing it, yeah it will necessary to pre-compile a default list of a full revision weekly.</p> <p>Or to be sneaky for now you can set a flag in options after each curl fetch and restart bbpress if you calculate approaching 30 seconds.</p> <p>Both ways sound like headaches.</p> <p>I wonder if the trac cache is faster/more efficent?</p> <p>ie.<br /> <a href="http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php" rel="nofollow">http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php</a><br /> vs.<br /> <a href="http://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php?format=raw" rel="nofollow">http://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php?format=raw</a></p> <p>I wonder if trac can be tricked to pre-gzip it all to download beforehand as a bundled revision? It's got to compress wonderfully as it's entirely plain text and repeating php functions.</p> <p>ps. be sure to take advantage of gzip support in curl / fsockopen - I have some code I wrote somewhere to do this if you need ideas </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9435 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:52:22 +0000 sambauers 9435@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>&gt; it works, yay!</p> <p>Great!</p> <p>&gt; idea: "power user toggle" that will turn the revision number into a hotlink to the svn directory</p> <p>Good idea, I'll ad it to my "to do" list.</p> <p>&gt; maybe show the filesize since curl/fopen has to pull the entire file down anyway so it knows the size</p> <p>It only completely pulls down the .php files from the trunk of each plugin to interrogate then and create the list, so I could only accurately report on the size of those. Otherwise I would have to traverse through all the subdirectories and add up the totals. Which would be a bit onerous.</p> <p>&gt; a tally at the bottom of how many plugins shown would be interesting to see too</p> <p>A bit superfluous, but I'll add it.</p> <p>&gt; will it paginate if one day there are over a hundred plugins?</p> <p>That wouldn't be too hard. But there aren't that many plugins right now.</p> <p>For a lark I pointed the plugin to the Wordpress Plugin SVN. It got about 1/4 of the way through retrieving the list of plugins and died (script timeout). Ultimately if this plugin is going to remain in use I'll have to either compile the plugin list on a server somewhere and serve it as a single file to all plugins, or build a "specs" file format for plugins to use if they want to be in the browser. But that is what the WordPress plugin I <a href="#post-9211">mentioned earlier</a> is attempting to do, so I'm more likely to assist in porting that plugin over to bbPress than extending this one to do it. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9420 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:36:44 +0000 _ck_ 9420@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Okee, will try and report back in a minute.<br /> Thanks as always!</p> <p>*** cries tears of joy ****</p> <p>it works, yay!</p> <p>(note I had to manually delete the two options already inserted into bbpress to get it to load the entire plugin list)</p> <p>Wow, very nice work...</p> <p>idea: "power user toggle" that will turn the revision number into a hotlink to the svn directory so I can directly preview the source and maybe show the filesize since curl/fopen has to pull the entire file down anyway so it knows the size</p> <p>a tally at the bottom of how many plugins shown would be interesting to see too... will it paginate if one day there are over a hundred plugins? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9417 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:04:11 +0000 sambauers 9417@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Gah! In 0.1.9 I changed all the version numbers but didn't actually change the code!</p> <p>0.1.10 is now committed, and *it* will fix your problem. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9415 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:13:48 +0000 sambauers 9415@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@_ck_</p> <p>Do you have version 0.1.9?</p> <p>That error was in 0.1.8 and fixed in 0.1.9 </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9389 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:05:06 +0000 _ck_ 9389@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Oh sweet. Heading off to try it.<br /> Thanks for making it use curl.</p> <p>*pout* still no list...<br /> "The plugin list was updated from revision 0 to revision 519."<br /> but I don't see any plugins listed</p> <p><em>Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in /home/example/public_html/forums/my-plugins/plugin-browser.php on line 309</em> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9387 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:31:23 +0000 sambauers 9387@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Just a quick heads-up, 0.1.7 and 0.1.8 have bugs which are addressed in 0.1.9 </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9376 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:49:21 +0000 sambauers 9376@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>&gt; you are trying to use a bb-admin function that was meant for local file access to do remote file access?</p> <p>I've replaced this call in the new version (0.1.7) with a custom function that doesn't use the file() call. So it will now use CURL where possible.</p> <p>New version also only retrieves headers where possible to speed up transfers.</p> <p>Also fixed sub-directory support for PHP installs that don't use CURL. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9314 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:43:58 +0000 sambauers 9314@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>&gt; update: actually this is not directly your fault, though you are trying to use a bb-admin function that was meant for local file access to do remote file access?</p> <p>If you check the short "to do" list at the top of the plugin you'll see that I plan to address that issue in the future. I might just copy and paste the code from that internal function and then hack in my own curl/fopen alternative function.</p> <p>&gt; If I am not mistaken, you just found a bbpress security loophole.</p> <p>Explain your concerns, how do you think this would be exploited? If it can be we should patch it up.</p> <p>&gt; ps. any concerns about eventually 2,000-20,000 bbpress users hammering the svn with so many file downloads to examine all the plugin headers?</p> <p>36 downloads so far, let's start worrying at 1,000 </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9270 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:18:13 +0000 _ck_ 9270@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Would it be possible for you to properly use fsockopen or curl instead of "file()" for remote files? Like many hosts, I disable file() for remote urls for security vulnerability reasons which cripples your plugin. You're likely to get many complaints that "nothing happens"<br /> <pre><code>Warning: file() [function.file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/example/public_html/forums/bb-admin/admin-functions.php on line 798</code></pre> <p>.<br /> update: actually this is not directly your fault, though you are trying to use a bb-admin function that was meant for local file access to do remote file access?</p> <p>If I am not mistaken, you just found a bbpress security loophole.</p> <p>ps. any concerns about eventually 2,000-20,000 bbpress users hammering the svn with so many file downloads to examine all the plugin headers? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9211 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:26:14 +0000 sambauers 9211@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>There is a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-soc-2007/web/wordpress-update-plugin">project</a> with much broader scope to implement a full-blown plugin updater on WordPress which is part of the Google Summer of Code. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9207 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:58:03 +0000 Jolaedana 9207@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Great stuff. :) I think this is something it would be cool if Wordpress should attempt- though it'd require one heck of an organizational system. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9185 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:11:58 +0000 sambauers 9185@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've updated the plugin to version 0.1.5 which adds support for plugins with sub-directories. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9168 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:05:06 +0000 sambauers 9168@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@so1o<br /> Did you update the list? That's the first step.</p> <p>Be patient though, it can take a while. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9159 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:15:25 +0000 so1o 9159@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>i dont see any plugins in the list either.. i dont have any other plugin except this one.. </p> <p>am i doing something wrong! :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9130 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:00:02 +0000 sambauers 9130@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Private messaging doesn't show up because there is nothing in the trunk. There are only tags. If the author just copies the latest tagged version to the trunk then it will show up too. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9129 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:56:32 +0000 sambauers 9129@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@louisedade</p> <p>That's always going to be a problem. I haven't looked closely at all plugins, but I do find that a lot of those that require extra fiddling in templates and what-not don't actually need to work that way. They often just aren't taking advantage of the various API hooks a lot of the time. Perhaps one like your avatar plugin that has to create folders etc. could do so using a post-install script, maybe even one that is triggered from the plugin's admin page? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9107 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:54:15 +0000 louisedade 9107@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hmmm, great idea, but it doesn't cope with complex plugins very well yet.</p> <p>For example, Avatar Upload and Private Messaging (which doesn't even show up in the browser for some reason), where files need to be placed in different locations to the my-plugins folder.</p> <p>Still, useful to know when new versions of plugins come out. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-plugin-browser-for-bbpress#post-9091 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:16:39 +0000 sambauers 9091@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@M<br /> Mmmmmm...... Choc.O.I.P.</p> <p>@ck<br /> I don't think there's much point in trying to align this tool with manually installed plugins. It's easy enough to remove the manually installed plugins and then re-install using the browser (provided they are in the repository and not hosted elsewhere of course). The re-installed plugin even picks up the old plugin's settings. I'm managing all my plugins this way now. </p>