[wp-hackers] Upload directory constant

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Fri Mar 20 19:32:23 GMT 2009


I guess I'm just not seeing it. No worries, different people use
different tools, but xref seems to be too intrusive to. It gets in my
way instead of helping me find what I want.

-Otto



On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Torreblanca
<regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Xref is pretty awesome... I spend a lot of time in the function list,
> and use it to see how many times and where a function might be called,
> etc. It's an invaluable tool. I use grep at the command line as well,
> but it's nowhere near as fast as using xref. I'd never use as xref for
> documentation purposes, I use it to make sense of the code whenever
> I'm looking at an area that I'm not familiar with. It's also decent as
> a purely technical reference.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried http://xref.yoast.com/simple-search.html ? It has suggest
>> functionality which is faster for me then grepping...
>>
>> On 20 mrt 2009, at 16:32, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's the php xref in general that just bugs me.. Lots of links, no
>>> idea what any of them do without practice.. It's just unintuitive as
>>> hell and hard to use and learn.
>>>
>>> xref has just always been seemingly totally useless to me, unless you
>>> know what you're looking for already, in which case you really
>>> wouldn't need the xref, would you?
>>>
>>> It's a poor substitute for documentation, and more often than not, a
>>> simple grep through files is faster and more useful than trying to
>>> figure out the xref, which makes me wonder wtf the point of it is.
>>> What can you do with xref that's faster than doing it without xref?
>>> Where's the benefit?
>>>
>>>
>>> -Otto
>>> Sent from: Memphis Tennessee United States.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It gives you the complete code, what more do you need? :) We're working
>>>> on
>>>> an integration of wplookup and my xref, so you can choose to go to either
>>>> the phpdoc or the xref :)
>>>>
>>>> Otto wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh. Is it just me, or does anybody else find xref to be bloody
>>>>> useless? I mean, it gives you almost no useful information about the
>>>>> function other than its name and where it's called from.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here you go:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/trunk/WordPress/_wp-includes---functions.php.html#functionwp_upload_dir
>>>>>
>>>>> -Otto
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Joost de Valk<joost at yoast.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did a quick search on http://xref.yoast.com/simple-search.html for
>>>>>> constants
>>>>>> and can't find any, but this might be helpful:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://xref.yoast.com/2.7.1/nav.html?_functions/wp_upload_dir.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Joost
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan Coulter wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a constant or another proper way to get the path of the
>>>>>>> uploads
>>>>>>> directory besides "WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/uploads'"?  I couldn't spot one
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>> brief search, but if anyone knows off the top of your head, I'd
>>>>>>> appreciate
>>>>>>> the pointer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> me *Joost de Valk*
>>>>>> Online Marketing, WordPress, SEO&  Social Media Strategy
>>>>>> OrangeValley<http://www.orangevalley.nl>  &  Yoast<http://yoast.com>
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