Extend Downloader Plugin

[mikeh]

This is my rough draft for an extend downloader plugin

This plugin will allow easy download and placement of plugins, themes and languages from the GS Extend.

If anyone has the time or motivation to test this out and provide your feedback I would appreciate it.

Screenshots:


Versions
Version .9.1
- Added zip checks to extend items in the "Plugins" category

[mvlcek]

If the plugin downloader tries to download this it will grab the whole author-vcard folder and place it into the plugins folder. It will not cause any problems, but of course the plugin will not be functional or display.

I think you should do some basic tests before installing the plugin/theme, e.g.

• for a plugin: there is at least one php file on the top level
  
• for a plugin: if there are sub directories they are named like one of the php files
  
• for a theme: the top level only contains a directory, which contains a template.php
  

[mikeh]

If the plugin downloader tries to download this it will grab the whole author-vcard folder and place it into the plugins folder. It will not cause any problems, but of course the plugin will not be functional or display.

I think you should do some basic tests before installing the plugin/theme, e.g.

• for a plugin: there is at least one php file on the top level
  
• for a plugin: if there are sub directories they are named like one of the php files
  
• for a theme: the top level only contains a directory, which contains a template.php
  

Thank you for your feedback! Those methods will work great.
So the extend item would either meet the above criteria (and install successfully) or return a message to the user saying they will need to manually install this plugin?

[ccagle8]

mikeh - I would also check for the existence of ZipArchive (is that the module you're using?) - some hosts dont have that installed...

[mikeh]

mikeh - I would also check for the existence of ZipArchive (is that the module you're using?) - some hosts dont have that installed...

yes that is the module I am using, I will add that check to the plugin. Thanks

[mikeh]

mikeh - I would also check for the existence of ZipArchive (is that the module you're using?) - some hosts dont have that installed...

Is ZipArchive being disabled common ? I believe I could use the php zip functions and then I would not need that module. Please let me know if I am incorrect.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php

I attached a new version of the plugin which checks extend items in the "plugins" category for compatibility.

[ccagle8]

well, we will find out after a few submissions of the "anonymous_data" plugin

I do know that pair disables it for some unknown god-forsaken reason...

[mikeh]

Do you have any recommendations for converting the markdown to html?

[ccagle8]

mikeh: This is the way Extend does it...

1. Include markdown.php [ http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ ]

Code:

require_once('includes/markdown.php');

2. When spitting out the description, do it this way:

Code:

echo Markdown(stripslashes(html_entity_decode($description, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')))

[mikeh]

mikeh: This is the way Extend does it...

1. Include markdown.php [ http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ ]

Code:

require_once('includes/markdown.php');

2. When spitting out the description, do it this way:

Code:

echo Markdown(stripslashes(html_entity_decode($description, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')))

I was trying to avoid including the 25kb markdown script, but that will work. Thanks

[ccagle8]

it just works... at least it should

[mikeh]

I think I worked out most of the issues. I am going to upload this to extend to get further feedback and suggestions.