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.

[Andreas]

Because the Style Manager Interface sucks

[akanevsky]

Well maybe although I don't see why.
I am actually fine wth jel's interface

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Because the Style Manager Interface sucks

I agree, the concept is nice, but I've disabled it for now because I hate the inteface.

[akanevsky]

It might have been better if it didn't rely so much on javascript.
And, key colors need to be changed.
I think that if Jelsoft took this into the default package, they could have made it better... Whatever it is, it is handy when products and plugins are together, isn't it?

[Andreas]

Yes, absolutely.
That's why I originally made such a thing for me
It's just the interface.

[Oblivion Knight]

Any chance of making this "anchor" a product group after it has been expanded (and possibly edited)?

If you have many plugins and products installed, it's rather frustrating to have to continually scroll down the page to access them while working on them..

[Oblivion Knight]

Another suggestion; hide products with no plugins.!

I've tried doing this myself, but to no avail.

[ndahiya]

Hi

I had Kirby's version installed, which I removed and installed this version... get this erro when i try to expand "all product groups"

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions.php
Line: 236

have not seen this error with anything else, so not quite sure what is happening.... Anyone else seeing this ??

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

Error:Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions.php
Line: 236

Hmm... i'm not getting that error, expanding and contracting all or individually works fine for myself.

[jugo]

I had this for a bit and switched to Kirby's....not that it's bad, just that the damn style manager inteface was getting to me.