[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5586: Auto installer for themes and plugins

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#5586: Auto installer for themes and plugins
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 Reporter:  lawrencejob             |        Owner:  ryan 
     Type:  enhancement             |       Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                  |    Milestone:  2.7  
Component:  Administration          |      Version:  2.3.1
 Severity:  normal                  |   Resolution:       
 Keywords:  installer theme plugin  |  
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Comment (by DD32):

 Replying to [comment:10 darkdragon]:
 > Replying to [comment:9 DD32]:
 > > Replying to [comment:7 darkdragon]:
 > > > You mean like #4779
 > >
 > > That would be nice for fetching of the themes and data, Infact, most
 of my plugins would love that to be included in core :)
 >
 > Wow! That is something coming from you.
 >
 > I would too, since well, I spent a long time writing it and everything.
 However, it does not have any support for FTP, which from what ryan has
 stated is a requirement that would need to be met.

 I mainly meant that for fetching external documents, Currently i've been
 using snoopy(but that doesnt work everywhere), WP tends to use
 fsockopen(but that doesnt work anywhere).

 IMO, your classes would be great replacement for all that.

 The classes refered to by ryan was for Filesystem access, Its a wrapper
 for various FTP methods/Direct filesystem methods, Its not designed to
 fetch remote documents, rather to modify the files on the local
 filesystem, Due to the number of different server setups, its never good
 to assume that you can just write to/from the public dir, That might lead
 to files being owned by different users(the Daemon process), different
 permissions, or permission denied errors. Those classes are designed to
 wrap around all that, and use Direct if possible, PHP 5's ftp function if
 available, Else a socket FTP access method.

 Personally i think my WpFS code with a fair bit of cleanup, and your HTTP
 access code would greatly simplify whats needed for this ticket.

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