[wp-hackers] plugin loading order (rfc)

[Peter Westwood]

Computer Guru wrote:
> Won't a simple require_once() command take care of it?
> 
> Say plugins X and B require plugin M.
> 
> Plugin B loads. First line of code has a require_once for a known plugin M 
> require_once("m.php");
> It's not loaded yet, so it gets loaded as a part of this routine.
> 
> Plugin X loads. It needs plugin M, which is already loaded.
> require_once("m.php");
> It's already loaded, nothing happens.
> 
> The only requirement is that you know the path to plugin M. But even if you
> had a dependency system, you'd still have to know something about plugin M
> to require it anyway.
> 

This breaks outside of the activate/deactivate paradigm for plugins 
though doesn't it - as I would never be able to deactivate plugin m as 
plugin x or b would load it anyway.


westi
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Peter Westwood
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