[wp-hackers] Activating another Plugin when Activating a Plugin

[Carl Roett]

I'm a core develper on the
BP-Media<http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/> team
(a media sharing app for BuddyPress).

Our plugin has a couple of blocks of code which solve these kinds of
problems, and are, of course completely open source.

Basically, if the program installation goes terribly wrong, the plugin
enters a special "safe mode". It explains why the plugin can't start-up:
 (perhaps because PHP is too old), BuddyPress is disabled, SQL server is
wrong version, etc. ...and in some cases gives a brief tutorial on how to
fix the problem.

Here here's a direct link to the relevant files on our Google SVN:
http://bit.ly/hazKv1

Thanks!

^F^

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On 10 December 2010 11:40, Alexander Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cheers Paul,
>
> I have this in at the moment, and throw a friendly error telling the
> user to activate BuddyPress with a link sending them to the plugins
> page. I'd prefer this link to actually activate BuddyPress, but just
> need to generate the nonce for that activate link.
>
> -- Alex
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 10 Dec 2010, at 18:37, Paul Gibbs <djpaul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 10 Dec 2010, at 18:17, Alexander Hempton-Smith wrote:
> >
> >> I'm considering putting this into BuddyPress Like, as it
> >> (unsurprisingly) depends on BuddyPress.
> >
> > FYI, BuddyPress provides actions for other plugins to hook into to avoid
> dependancy errors; take a look at
> http://codex.buddypress.org/plugin-development/checking-buddypress-is-active/
> >
> > Regards
> > Paul Gibbs
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