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Andreas
10-01-2005, 10:00 PM
You are developing Plugins on localhost and don't like the Plugin Manager too much because of it's limited editing capabilites and would rather like to use your favourite editor?

Then you might find the following useful:

1) Create a directory hooks in your includes directory
2) In File class_hook.php find

return $this->pluginlist["$hookname"];


Replace that with

return @file_get_contents(DIR . "/includes/hooks/hook_$hookname.php");


Then write your Plugin Codes as normal Files in directory hooks.
Example: hook_global_start.php for a Plugin on global_start

Note: Don't use <?php and ?>-Tags or your code won't work!
Marco van Herwaarden
10-02-2005, 06:16 AM
Great work Kirby. Have been walking around with the same idea, but never had time to look into it. Never would have guessed it would only need a 1 line edit.
Brad
10-03-2005, 08:00 AM
I like it, many thanks Kirby.
akanevsky
10-10-2005, 10:04 PM
Great idea. Can I have more than one plugin in such file? Or am I supposed to fill those files with regular PHP code?
Andreas
10-10-2005, 10:05 PM
I don't understand the question ...
akanevsky
10-10-2005, 10:08 PM
What is supposed to be in "hook_$hookname.php"? PHP codes that would otherwise be added into the plugin manager?
Andreas
10-10-2005, 10:16 PM
Yes. What else should be there?
Paul M
10-10-2005, 10:24 PM
Presumably you can do this on a remote server as well since I have an editing program that can directly edit remotle ftp files. It would be even better if it only loaded the file contents if it can't find anything in the normal hooks database.
akanevsky
10-28-2005, 11:38 PM
Actually, all this is not required, as vBulletin...
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/optimizing_plugin_memory