[wp-testers] Keeping Up-to-date [s]

[John Ha [c]]

Thanks for pointing that out. Will make the required mod ^^
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  From: Rob 
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  Sent: Monday, 23 January 2006 11:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Keeping Up-to-date


  John Ha [c] wrote:
  > Hi,
  >  
  > I've implemented a version checking hack for the next release of my 
  > plugins (kca & kin). Here's how I've done it:
  >  
  > I have a file with just the following code:
  >  
  > echo preg_replace('/^[\s\S]*kin-(\d\.\d\.\d)[\s\S]*$/', '$1', 
  > @file_get_contents('http://svn.wp-plugins.org/kin/tags/'));
  >  
  > What this code does is read the page 
  > http://svn.wp-plugins.org/kin/tags/. This page contains the the 
  > directory to latest version of my plugin Eg. kin-1.0.0. It then does a 
  > regexp to extract the version number. Finally it echos the results.
  >  
  > The next part just involves using some ajax to get the results 
  > from that file (this will overcome the security limitation of reading 
  > a page from another domain using xmlhttp). Ajax is used for background 
  > loading to reduce wait time for plugin load.
  >  
  > Finally it's just a case of comparing the results (in this case the 
  > version number from svn repos) with the current user plugin version.
  >  
  > That's my solution to plugin version checking. Not the most graceful 
  > method, but little code is involved, no need to update any version 
  > files, no server, quite safe and it works for me.
  >  
  > John Ha

  Please don't rely on allow_url_fopen being open, Wordpress includes 
  Snoopy for a reason :)

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  Rob Miller
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