[wp-hackers] WordPress plugin list

[Stephen O'Connor]

Um, wow.

Sorry bud, but if you built that system I would be determined to break it.
:) Call me a private person but I don't want any plugin digging through my
database and calling home what it found.

There is an easier way to do what you described, but I think I'll keep it to
myself. :)

Wordpress spyware... ick.

- Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: hackers-bounces at wordpress.org
[mailto:hackers-bounces at wordpress.org]On Behalf Of Jason goldsmith
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:40 PM
To: hackers at wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WordPress plugin list


MooKitty and I were discussing a similar idea a few weeks ago, we just
haven't had much time to work on it.

The idea was to create an XMLRPC Server/Client that could be installed
optionally which would report which plugins were installed on a blog.
When the plugin was activated the plugin's usage count would go up,
when it was deactivated, it would go down. We thought this would be a
good way of helping to rate which plugins people were really using.

All the pertinent information about a plugin can be found in the
plugin header that WP parses to create the plugins.php page, including
who wrote it, what version it was and, provided the developer has
included the proper fields, a link to download it. You'd just need to
use the plugin name + version number as a unique key for the plugin.

The only trick is figuring out when to make the callsto the XMLRPC
server to report the plugin. I figured the best place to handle that
is in the publish_post action. You can't run any plugins on
plugins.php, so you can't catch the activate/deactivate call, but you
could easily keep a simple state fill of which plugins were active the
last time you sent a message to the XMLRPC server.

Implementing an auto install system should be pretty easy, you just
need to make a call to the XMLRPC server and grab all the available
plugins and their most recent version. Then you can get the url and
curl the file to the server, unpack it into wp-content/plugins and
you're off.

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