[wp-hackers] "This page" inconsistency

[David Coppit]

For management pages of plugins, it's sufficient to give the filename
without a directory:

   /blog/wp-admin/edit.php?page=category-order-management.php&action=blah

(category-order-management.php is in plugins/category_order)

But for options pages, you need to give the directory as well:

   /blog/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=category-access/category-access-options.php

If you don't you get an error.


The former can be gotten using this in the plugin:

   $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?page=" . basename(__FILE__);

Whereas you need this for the latter:

   $page_only_uri = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
   $page_only_uri = preg_replace('/&.*/','',$page_only_uri);


Questions: Is the first non-directory method a feature or a bug? Is this
inconsistency a feature or a bug? Is there a "correct" way of getting the
current page?

Thanks,
David

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David Coppit                           david at coppit.org
The College of William and Mary        http://coppit.org/

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