Can plugins have their own standalone pages?

I have a very basic plugin that attempts to do this, but it displays both my output, and then the entire index page below it. I suspect this has something to do with the ‘bb_get_location’ function, but I don’t know how to resolve it.

my-plugin.php

include_once(rtrim(dirname(__FILE__),' /\').'/my-plugin-core.php');

if (isset($_GET['my-plugin'])) {

add_action( 'bb_init', 'display_deals');

}

my-plugin-core.php

echo "Example";

Can someone tell me the proper way to do this? Do I need to link directly into the ‘/bb-plugins/my-plugin/’ directory?

[yuttMember @yutt 3 years, 11 months ago]

Okay, I ended up going a totally different route with this, I don’t know that it will work for everyone or if it is “proper”, but it works for me.

my-plugin.php now has:

include_once('my-plugin-core.php');

include_once('../../bb-load.php');

From there I check if the user is authenticated as an admin with:

bb_ssl_redirect();

bb_auth();

After that I just call ‘my-function();’

I will use mod_rewrite to make the URL less ridiculous.

[yuttMember @yutt 3 years, 11 months ago]

Alright, now I am having *serious* issues getting Rewrite Rules to work.

I’ve done these dozens of times and they aren’t particular complicated, here is a brief example of what I am trying to do:

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^example/?$ /forum/bb-plugins/example/example.php [NC,L]

</IfModule>

Accessing ‘http://www.example.com/forum/bb-plugins/example/example.php’ directly works perfectly. Accessing from ‘http://www.example.com/example’ does a redirect to ‘http://www.example.com/forums’.

There are NO other rewrite rules active. I even disabled those from bbpress to try to track down what is happening. But some sort of 302 redirect keeps occurring. Is bbpress triggering this internally somehow?

[yuttMember @yutt 3 years, 11 months ago]

A friend of mine helped me to determine this *is* being done by bbpress, most likely as some referral rule system. How do I get around this? I would like to be able to access my page from a rewritten URL.

[yuttMember @yutt 3 years, 11 months ago]

So…

bb_auth(); in ‘functions.bb-pluggable.php’ is causing this redirection problem.

I appear to be failing at the line:

if ( !bb_validate_auth_cookie( '', $scheme ) ) {

I’ll have to look into bb_validate_auth_cookie() to see where that leads.

[yuttMember @yutt 3 years, 11 months ago]

Well, I replaced the:

bb_auth();

line with:

if (!bb_current_user_can('administrate')) {bb_auth();}

Hopefully that is secure, everything seems to work now. Huzzah!