[wp-hackers] Best practice: access plugins php files

[Peter Westwood]

On 11 Aug 2010, at 03:57, Lox wrote:

> 2010/8/11 John Blackbourn <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com>:
>> I personally use the following to get the location of my plugin:
>> 
>> $plugin_dir = WP_PLUGIN_URL . '/' . basename( dirname( __FILE__ ) );
>> 
>> Then your file would be at:
>> 
>> $plugin_dir . '/help.php?field=password';
> 
> I know how to get the url to my plugins, thks.
> 
> So it seems the best practice is to access plug-ins scripts directly
> when needed. I was just wondering if there was a sort of wrapper to
> achieve it. Seems there is not. Thanks.


Best practise for this is to access the file directly if you don't need any WordPress functionality.

You should use plugins_url() to get the url to a file.

plugins_url( __FILE__, 'help.php?field=password');

This way you are covered for custom wp-content locations, https and other things that might change in future

westi
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