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[HowTo] Use the version check for your products

Hellcat

Join Date: May 2003

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Hellcat

06-08-2006, 10:00 PM

Howdy folks!

Since I just tapped into a trap here, I thought I'll write up a few lines about this already:

Like we all know

you can supply a version check URL in the product manager of vB 3.6.
This URL should return something like this:

Code:

<version productid="my_product_id">1.2.3</version>

It's pretty selvexplanatory, but anyway: first comes the product ID, that *MUST* match with the product ID of your product that's checking via this URL.

Versions in the following notation will work as well (I tested it): 1.23

OK, so far so already told on the vb.com announcement.

Here comes what they didn't tell us (yet)

The request for the version is done via a POST request!
So, putting up a simple text or XML file that holds the current version will not work in most cases since most webservers answer a POST an a static page with "Method not supported".

So, you need a litte PHP script like this:

PHP Code:


			
<?php echo '<version productid="my_product_id">1.2.3</version>'; ?>

A tiny little one-liner that does the trick.

You can also specify additional arguments in the URL like

Code:

http://domain.tld/version.php?param1=foo&param2=bar

and such.

You can then grab those parameters via the $_REQUEST global:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



if ( $_REQUEST["p"] == "cool_product" )

{

  echo '<version productid="cool_product">1.12</version>';

}



if ( $_REQUEST["p"] == "another_product" )

{

  echo '<version productid="another_product">4.2.3</version>';

}



?>

That's about it.

Remeber: POST, not GET, and you'll get the post

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