[wp-hackers] Plugin main file name

[Robert R. Marsh, SJ]

Stephen,

It was versioning issues that led me to separate the core code into another
plugin -- even though, as Ozh points out, it can feel odd needing two
plugins to do one job.

Rob

rmarsh.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen Rider
> Sent: 23 August 2008 23:45
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Plugin main file name
> 
> 
> On Aug 23, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Ozh wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Stephen Rider 
> > <wp-hackers at striderweb.com> wrote:
> >> myplugin/plugin_main.php
> >> anotherplugin/plugin_main.php
> >> thirdplugin/plugin_main.php
> >
> > Make everything in plugin_main.php within a "if
> > (!class_exists('strider_main')) class strider_main{}", and whenever 
> > you update this file, update all your plugins that use it
> 
> Here's what I did, but I still have a question.
> 
> I normally put all of a plugin's function in a class -- to 
> avoid naming conflicts and to aid in making reusable code.
> 
> So what I did is this:  I have my "core" class -- strider_core().   
> Class strider_core contains all the common code that is 
> reused across pretty much all my plugins.  This file is 
> included with each plugin.
> 
> Then, in the main plugin file, I require_once the core file, 
> then create the plugin's class like so:
> 
> class myplugin extends strider_core { ... }
> 
> That way myplugin includes everything from strider_core, plus 
> all the code particular to the plugin that I add to myplugin.
> 
> The strider_core class declaration is wrapped in if( !  
> class_exists( 'strider_core' ) { ... }
> That way if there are multiple of my plugins installed, they 
> don't try to declare the class multiple times.
> 
> Okay, here's the question:
> 
> I want to give strider_core a version number.  I want the 
> if() clause that checks for the class to ALSO check the 
> version of the class (if it exists).  If the existing class 
> is a lower version number (such as from an older version of 
> the other plugin) I want go ahead with declaring the class 
> again with the newer code.
> 
> Is there a way to redeclare a class in PHP?
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm stuck.
> 
> Stephen
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