[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:  2.5  
Component:  Administration          |      Version:  2.3.1
 Severity:  normal                  |   Resolution:       
 Keywords:  installer theme plugin  |  
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Comment (by ryan):

 Patch makes use of DD32's filesystem classes.  To test, bump the version
 of your copy of akismet down a ver and delete update_plugins from the
 options table.  This will force an update of the plugin update info.  In
 the "new version is available" notice on the plugins page there is an
 "upgrade automatically" link.  If your web server is setup with suPHP, the
 upgrade doesn't need any additional info. If that's not available, FTP is
 used.  To upgrade via FTP, you need to define FTP_HOST, FTP_USER, and
 FTP_PASSWORD in your wp-config.php.  I'm still debugging the ftpext and
 ftpsockets classes.  ftpext is working well enough with the FTP server
 that comes with Mac OS X Leopard.

 This is still very rough. Lot's of error checking and feedback as well as
 friendlier FTP configuration need to be added.  Downloading the new plugin
 zip, extracting it, and copying it into place are all done in the same
 page load.  This may need to be broken up so that slow updates don't
 timeout.  Updates against my local testbed were very fast, however.

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