[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20437: WP Upgrader filter to allow plugins to upload to existing directory

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#20437: WP Upgrader filter to allow plugins to upload to existing directory
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 Reporter:  usermrpapa   |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Upload       |    Version:  3.3.1
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  has-patch
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 Our plugin for WP uses various elements of the WP upgrader class to manage
 plugins for our plugin. ;)  This has worked great except when we went to
 extend it further and allow uploading of plugins through the WP Upgrader
 class much like you can with WP plugins.

 The issue is that currently, the WP Upgrader class is coded to expect the
 upload destination to be empty - EXCEPT if the upload destination (the
 base directory) is one of these hard coded locations:

 in_array( $destination, array(ABSPATH, WP_CONTENT_DIR, WP_PLUGIN_DIR,
 WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes') )

 So since our plugin storage location is not one of those, it fails since
 there may already be some plugins there.

 Sure would be nice if that array of locations that does not have to be
 empty (the important base dirs which allow dropping down a directory
 level)...  a simple filter would accomplish this...

 Hope its not too late in 4.3 for a simple filter...

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