[wp-hackers] preg_match_all() Crashes Server

[Mike Walsh]

Would the standard "the_content" filter convert the Markdown syntax to
HTML?  If it does, then yes I could do that.  My reason for reading it from
the WordPress Plugin Repository was so I didn't have to parse the Markdown
text.


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Mike Little <wordpress at zed1.com> wrote:

> On 13 March 2013 15:01, Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A user of my WordPress Google Form plugin has run into an odd problem
> where
> > visiting the Plugin Settings page results in a server crash.  I can't
> > replicate it but he provided me access to a test site where I was able to
> > determine that a call to preg_match_all() is what is crashing the server.
> >
> > I am not sure how to resolve this.  What I am doing is using
> > wp_remote_get() to scrape the FAQ and Usage content for my plugin from
> the
> > WordPress Plugin Repository (the content from the ReadMe file), extract
> > what I want, and put the content on a tab on my Settings Page.  Doing
> this
> > allowed me an easy way to add Help to my plugin within the Settings Page.
> >
> >
> Wouldn't it be just as easy to read that info from the ReadMe file included
> with the plugin? It would certainly save the remote call and the storage of
> the retrieved file, headers, statuses etc. You could probably run the
> standard the_content filter on it to turn it into basic HTML.
>
> Mike
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