[wp-hackers] Checking plugin version

[Chris McCoy]

Thanks for the info on that what about the version for the update api?

Recently I was doing a check for the latest version from a shell script

curl -s http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.6/ | sed -e
's/.*s:7:"current";s:5:"//;s/".*//'

which currently would print 3.4.2

does the version check allow post?


-----Original Message-----
From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Otto
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 8:02 AM
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Checking plugin version

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Chris McCoy <chris at lod.com> wrote:
> To get the plugin ver you can do something like this
>
>     $url = 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/wordpress-seo/';
>
>     $ch = curl_init();
>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
>     $result = curl_exec($ch);
>     curl_close($ch);
>
>     $result = unserialize($result);
>     echo $result->version;


While that works, I cannot guarantee that it will continue to work in the
future. It's not the way the WordPress core itself uses to talk to the API
server.

You should be doing an HTTP POST to:
http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/

The parameters in the body of the POST for the plugin info request should
be:
'action' = 'plugin_information'
and
'request' = PHP serialized version of array('slug'=>'whatever')

If you want to not get certain parts of the request (like all the sections
stuff from the readme), you can add an optional fields parameter to that
request array, like so:
array( 'slug'=>'whatever', 'fields' => array('sections' => false) )

That would make it not return the "sections" section in the response.

-Otto
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