Advanced Plugin Manager - Reloaded

Advanced Plugin Manager - Reloaded v2.6

The original Advanced Plugin Manager was written by KirbyDE (found here). He expressed that this was not a release he intended to make into a full-fledged mod, and it also contained some bugs.
When I first saw the thread over at vB.com posted by Live Wire, he had photoshopped the Template Manager to indicate how Products and Plugins could work with this interface. I quite liked the idea, so I decided to make it so.
A week and one permission from Kirby later, I can present to you this Extension.

Features:

• Mimicks the Template Manager in pretty much every sense
• "Flag" Plugins for export/deletion
• Remembers the expanded products indefinetely
• Remembers the "flagged" plugins indefinetely
• Automatically de-flags plugins when they have been exported/deleted.
• Plugins that are subject to a disabled Product are marked as disabled themselves at runtime. Their TRUE state (as stored in the database) remains untouched.
• Mass deletion of "flagged" plugins
• Mass export of "flagged" plugins
• Working "Save & Reload" button (Credits to Kirby for fixing it)
• Shortcut to "Add / Import Product"
• Fully phrased
• NO Code Modifications needed!

Note:
This Extension will require page reloads for pretty much all its actions, as the Template Manager does. If you do not like this, please use Kirby's version.
Kirby does in no way support this version, nor do I support his.
Important! You need to uninstall Kirby's version before installing mine, should you choose my version.

Screenshots attached in 2nd post.

Install instructions:

1. Click install (you want your precious support, don't you? ).
2. Upload the files.
3. Import the Product XML file through your ACP.
4. Enjoy.

Upgrade instructions:

1. Upload all files again.
2. Import new product XML.
3. Enjoy the improvements.

[Logikos]

Works perfect for me in 3.5.4.

[Revan]

I can't figure this out, doesn't happen to me no matter what I do to try to reproduce this.
Sorry ;(

[reismarktq2]

A couple of thoughts I had, just in case it might help you reproduce the problem:

On my installation, the plug-in that's supposed to strip 'Manage Products' from the Plugin System menu just plain doesn't work. Doesn't work with the product enabled, doesn't work if I refresh the Admin CP, doesn't work if I refresh the Admin CP after CLEARING THE CACHE.

Also, I just remebered: On my site, I'm not using the default setting for my cookie domain (blank). This is because I have vBadvanced running on the core domain and vBulletin installed on a boards sub-domain, and I wanted people to be able to log in from both domains. Would that possibly make a difference? It *does* seem to be a cookie-related issue...

[TruthElixirX]

I unisntaleld this (misc reasons) then upon trying to reinstall I get this MySQL error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `vb3_plugin` ADD `flag` TINYINT( 1 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error  : Duplicate column name 'flag'
Error Number : 1060
Date         : Monday, March 27th 2006 @ 08:49:55 PM
Script       : http://www.thechillcenter.com/forums/admincp/plugin.php
Referrer     : http://www.thechillcenter.com/forums/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address   : 162.40.129.113
Username     : Chris
Classname    : vb_database

My "manage products" link have disappeared and I can only use single plug-ins. >.< Any idea?

[COBRAws]

I just upgraded to 3.5.4 and it gives me the "headers already sent" error in both my upgraded forum and my test forum. I thought it was something interacting betweek plugins so i installed a second test board with just this extension, but, it doesnt work either.


is this hack still supported? I cant wait for a fix, because I am not able to find the bug :S

Originally Posted by Revan

I can't figure this out, doesn't happen to me no matter what I do to try to reproduce this.
Sorry ;(

oh I just read this. well my friend... i dont know where the headers are being called from the advplugins.php file. this is weird lol

its a shame, this is the best hack for administrating hacks as far as I know. Good job by the way!

[pranism]

Installs, nice add on. Thanks

[peterska2]

nice, much better than the andreas version. My list was getting far too long and was driving me crazy.

The only question is, why did I not discover and install this earlier?

[harmor19]

Great Product.
Thanks

[Hellcat]

Hey folks!

I never got the cookie error before, and I used this addon lot's of times already on many vB installations.

Today I catched the error on my dev'n'demo vB.
Since it ALWAYS worked fine before (even the same vB version on the same server) I imagined it had to do something with the vB settings.

OK, so much for the histroy lesson

I don't know the exact cause (yet) but this is what I just found out:

Turn *ON* GZIP compression in the vB options -> and it WORKS!
Turn GZIP off -> You (or at least me) get the cookie error.

If any of you who get that error could confirm this, we finally have at least a way to get it working and a base to find what's causing this

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

Hey folks!

I never got the cookie error before, and I used this addon lot's of times already on many vB installations.

Today I catched the error on my dev'n'demo vB.
Since it ALWAYS worked fine before (even the same vB version on the same server) I imagined it had to do something with the vB settings.

OK, so much for the histroy lesson

I don't know the exact cause (yet) but this is what I just found out:

Turn *ON* GZIP compression in the vB options -> and it WORKS!
Turn GZIP off -> You (or at least me) get the cookie error.

If any of you who get that error could confirm this, we finally have at least a way to get it working and a base to find what's causing this

wow, you are right!

This is weird lol, but as you say, at least we have some kind of clue when and when It does not work.

[high]* COBRAws jumps all over the place because he can use the adv. plugin system again =D
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not to jellsoft, this should be standard in vb.