[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #4389: Improve plugin activate and
deactivate hooks
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#4389: Improve plugin activate and deactivate hooks
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Reporter: Otto42 | Owner: anonymous
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 2.4
Component: Optimization | Version:
Severity: major | Keywords:
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The activate and deactivate hooks are clumsy, at best. Because they rely
on the name of the plugin file being a constant, renaming a plugin file
will break them. Even worse, the plugin path is part of that name, so
putting a plugin in a subdirectory that it was not expecting (for users
that want to keep things organized) will also break these.
Instead, how about adding an optional tag to the Plugin header, like so:
{{{
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Name Of The Plugin
Plugin URI: http://URI_Of_Page_Describing_Plugin_and_Updates
Description: A brief description of the plugin.
Version: The plugin's Version Number, e.g.: 1.0
Author: Name Of The Plugin Author
Author URI: http://URI_Of_The_Plugin_Author
Activate: activate_function_hook
Deactivate: deactivate_function_hook
*/
?>
}}}
When a plugin is activated or deactivated, that tag can be read from its
header and then the hook specified can be called to trigger that action in
the plugin. This provides an absolutely certain way to call activate or
deactivate functions in a plugin, without relying on the filename and
filepath that the plugin happens to be in.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4389>
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