[wp-hackers] Plugin Management and Autoupdate System

[Doug Stewart]

Computer Guru wrote:
> There _is_ one thing that puts us at a big disadvantage: in order to
> autoupdate, we'd have to assume that fopen and fwrite are available, at
> least I don't know of any other way to replace the old version of the plugin
> with a new one... and quite a few hosts block fopen and fwrite.
>
> Even worse, we're going to have a real headache with n00bs coming in with
> wrong permissions all over the place until some 'godsend' teaches them how
> to do chmod 777 * -R and makes an even bigger mess of things.
>
> Firefox can create and delete files on the fly, but this _is_ going to be
> hard.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for how one would circumvent this? I don't think
> the standard WP "If this file were writable you could save this.." dialog is
> enough....
>
> For now that's what I'm going to go for, it'll attempt fwrite, if it can
> that's dandy, but if it can't we're going to have to spit the plugin file to
> the screen for the user to cut and paste on their own - ugh.
>
> Any suggestions? 
>   

Check for fopen() support and try to fall back on curl() if it's disabled.

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Doug Stewart
Senior Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs 
dstewart at atl.lmco.com