[wp-hackers] Blog Import/Export Idea - Google Summer of Code 2010

[Aram]

Is that secure to allow the plugin to download the wp-config.php from
another server? it means it will have full access to ftp and mysql...

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Meher Anand <meheranandk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I am currently studying my last semester of Computer Science & Engineering.
> I have been using Wordpress heavily for the last 3 years and I am
> interested
> in contributing for it. The Blog Import/Export idea interested me since I
> too had faced some issues when I was shifting a blog installation from one
> hosting facility to another. Here's the working scenario which I propose:
>
> - User needs to know only the FTP account details. Knowing the database
> details is an added plus. The Blog Import Export (BIE) plugin will be
> installed only on the new blog. If the user is unaware of the DB details,
> BIE will initially download the wp-config file from the remote server and
> extract the DB password from it and connect to the database. A check list
> will be generated based on both Category and Month-Year and a user can
> choose to transfer full or only part of the blog by Category or by
> Month-Year.
>
> - User will also be given the following options:
> 1) Would you like to transfer Media files which are not being used in any
> of
> your articles?
> 2) Would you like to transfer unpublished articles?
>
> - Once all options are selected, transfers will be done on a post by post
> basis i.e. the post and all media referenced by it. This is done so that if
> this were a large blog and the transfer were somehow interrupted, atleast
> some of the posts will be visible completely with the pictures, documents
> and stuff inside the new blog. Also, while the transfer is going on, an
> AJAX
> based status update can be given so that the user is aware of the current
> status. It can be of the format, 3 / 140 posts transferred.
>
> - If the transfer were to be interrupted due to some reason, the BIE plugin
> can store the user configuration (which posts need to be transferred, FTP
> details, DB details etc.) in a separate table in the local database and
> also
> the current state of the transfer. This would help the plugin recover later
> on when the transfer would be resumed.
>
> Please review this and let me know if I've missed out on anything.
>
> Also, here's my work related to Wordpress and general PHP coding so far:
>
> 1) Faculty pages for my University. Work still in progress and to be
> launched soon. Demo link: http://cse.vnit.ac.in/people/ashishtiwari/ .
> These
> blogs are actually meant to be used by faculty as their personal home
> pages,
> so rule 0 is to not make it look like a blog. I had made significant
> changes
> to the code base to remove the concept of comments and side bar etc. Login
> is through LDAP. This plugin
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-ldap-login/ helped quite a bit
> but didn't satisfy requirements mainly because of multiple DNs being used
> by
> the LDAP server. I had to make significant modifications there so as to
> allow use of different DNs based on regular expression matching on
> user-input username.
> 2) Installation and maintenance of http://acm.vnit.ac.in/ and
> http://axis.vnit.ac.in/blog.
> 3) Coding of Institute Alumni website to be launched by the end of this
> week. Link - http://alumni.vnit.ac.in/ . Coding was done in CakePHP. This
> website has features that are parallel to those offered by Facebook and
> Twitter and heavily uses AJAX. JQuery was used for Javascript and AJAX.
> 4) Currently developing the University website http://beta.vnit.ac.in/ on
> CakePHP.
>
> Regards.
>
> Meher Anand
> Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
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