I'm developing a web application where users can upload multiple plugins. I want to give an extra value to my app with a feature like wordpress plugin version adviser. I don't know how to deep in this area in order to investigate. I hear someting like "pingtracks", but not sure if this the correct way. Well, that's my doubt, how can I determinate if there is a new plugin version to uptade?
Thanks in advance.
PS: There is a table in my db with all plugins relevent data like url, author, current version, etc.
Each plugin should have a URL for some sort of update manifest. The resource at that URL should contain information such as currently available versions, and the URLs of files that need to be updated. This file could be as simple as static JSON data.
Please remember to use HTTPS, so that it is harder to spoof your update site.
Every time that user uploads a new plugin, check the "current version" in your DB and compare it with the last same-named plugin uploaded. (create another table for saving needed data for example)
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Is it possible to update the content of a website (add Item, remove Item, update Infos, etc...) directly from the webpage?
For example, you have a webpage and you make a new page in it, that only the admin can access. That page should contain some options that allow the admin to change/update contents on the actual website(what people can see) easily.
(Without the admin having to write new HTML or PHP code...)
I heard something about Joomla or Wordpress but I don't really know how they work.
Thank you.
Basicaly, joomla has some fonctionnalities to edit content by the frontoffice. Of course, the user need to be logged and access levels need to be well managed. You should to try it with a basic installation and see if it's coherent with respect to that you looking for.
I am creating a Wordpress plugin for the admin area. It needs to set options and write to a file and database based on the options that are saved.
I have tried creating a "Create File" button which sends POST data back to itself. I now need to create a file and add a column to the database based on a hidden boolean filed.
I'm struggling because I can't do what I want because the form needs to have a different action. Any advice on how to so this?
What a different action? Without any code examples that show what you're doing and what exactly is not working, we only can imagine and give you general info. In Wordpress, you don't have to care about naked url options cause the core will do this for you. Its enough to register the required hooks, read the passed data here and do what is required with them. Simple storing settings wouldn't require to extend the database scheme, since Wordpress already have a table for this. You could use the Wordpress functions here.
See the article of the Wordpress developers page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages
Using the hooks, its no big deal to create a file too. Simple write your PHP code after saving the settings in the database. How you concretely do this depends on the requirements: Is the data passed as form field? Is it fetched from an external source (like api)? Depending on the requirements this should be done with relatively less work using a search engine, cause enough sample codes exists for those scenarios.
I have created a snippet that takes specified code and minifies it, but I'm looking to turn this into a plugin to streamline the process. I'm looking to have the code minify when I save a file, and create a new file in that directory with a new name. I have this working as a snippet, but I don't want to be writing files every time the page is loaded.
Is there a way to check when a file (in the Files Tab/Assets) is saved in ModX, and then execute a plugin? I looked through the existing System Events, and didn't find anything.
Looks like you have 3 system events that may work for you: OnFileManagerUpload, OnFileEditFormPrerender & OnFileCreateFormPrerender. My guess would be OnFileManagerUpload.
Docs here:
http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/basic-development/plugins/system-events/onfilemanagerupload
Though it's important to note [the last time I checked] that even if a system event is listed in the manager and/or documented, they are not all implemented [i.e. won't work] - best to check on this in the modx forums or dig through the code to see if it actually exists.
Now, you are trying to do this from the manager or some front end form?
In the manager attaching a plugin to the OnFileManagerUpload hopefully works. In the front end you may have to attach your plugin to one of the page rendering events either read the file's time/date or append/prepend a timestamp within the file itself.
[or if you are using formit, you can probably use a custom hook to get the job done as well]
As a project I would like to create a website that allows a user to login (create a login/password if doesn't exist) and enter some data for the day (say miles run, calories burned, situps done, etc). The website would record this data for the user for that day and build a running log of various activities. The user would be able to go back and edit entries. The user could then view the history of their various activities.
I have written some perl code to handle the various analysis that I intend to do on the user-entered data. I also can easily create a perl script to save a flat file with the user generated data appended with the data and allow editing.
But I have no clue how to get this into a web experience and unfortunately I don't even know where to start!
Any idea how I should go about doing this? It doesn't need to be a super fancy website, just functional. Where should I start?
Thank you
See Ovid's CGI Course. CGI.pm is a simple Perl tool to create web pages. For more advanced tool look at Mojolicious framework. I use CGI::Application framework but it is old and for me it is already too simple, Catalyst and Mojolicious are more advanced.
I would use WordPress or Drupal as the basic framework. In Drupal7 you'd create a new content type, in Wordpress you'd create a new "Post Type" (new as of WP 3.0) for users to enter data. You'd then write code to fetch & process that data.
But you could off course just use WordPress with the Runners Log plugin (and Drupal probably has a similar plugins), if you wouldn't want to do the coding ;-)
I'm testing a new template for a wordpress based site, and I'd like to test it directly on the live version instead of making copies. I thought I could create a test user (wordpress is bridged with vbulletin which handles user auth), serve the usual theme to anyone BUT that specific user, who would get the new testing one.
I don't want to install a plugin, I'm looking for the right place to edit to insert this check:
if logged user == test_user_id
serve 'testtheme'
else
serve 'normaltheme'
The userid can be get from $_COOKIE.
I tried hacking the get_template() function in wp-include/theme.php but apparently that was not enough. Any suggestion?
This is the best way to "test" or develop a theme behind the scenes without needing to alter too much of your Wordpress core or make custom changes...
http://digwp.com/2009/12/develop-themes-behind-the-scenes/
Just logging into my old Wordpress.com blog, I see that I can do all the previewing I want from the themes manager already - click around to any page I like, or bring up the frame's URL to see what query string I'd have to append to a URL to get the same preview, e.g.
?preview=1&template=pub/mytheme&stylesheet=pub/mytheme
Any reason that's not enough?
Perhaps you should add a column to your user table, call it "is_beta" and if it's set to 1 then enable beta features/themes. This way you can easily add or remove people from the beta, and when you're beta is ready to launch, you flush the column for everybody and make the features default.