Disabling/Enabling a plugin in PHP
 

I am creating a custom cpnav menu for a product I am making and one of the options is to enable/disable certain aspects of the product. To disable these aspects I must disable the plugins they depend on.

My question is: How would I go about disabling/enabling a plugin in PHP? I tried having the PHP change the active column to zero in the plugin table but that does not work.

It will work, you just need to rebuild the datastore afterwards.

Calling build_product_datastore() will do that (you need to make sure adminfunctions.php has been loaded).

However, Im not sure why you would present such an option, its a bit odd (and how would they re-enable it).

Thank you for your help.

I need this option because I want to make it easy for users to disable certain functionality within the product. Disabling these functionalities requires the user to disable more than one plugin, so I figure it will be more user friendly if its done automatically.

To re-enable the plugin I figured I'd just set active to 1 and do as you said. I'm doing:

vBulletinHook::build_datastore($db);

and also...

$vbulletin->GPC['active']["{//plugin id}"] = //0 or 1;

Then you are doing it the wrong way. :)

Create a custom setting (or settings) in the options, and use them to enable or disable code (using IF statements).