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WordPress Plugins Database » Plugin Details » Extension Manager — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:49:27 +0000

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By: Andly

Andly — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:58:04 +0000

Hi Chris
tested on php 5.2 and wordpress 2.5, it works fine but looks a little…ugly!!

Thanks anyway for the awesome job

Andly

By: Kolja Schleich

Kolja Schleich — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:20:55 +0000

Hi,

I think your plugin has the potential to become the standard for plugins und theme management. But until this is the case it still needs some improvements.

Most importantly you should (if this is possible) retrieve plugin and theme information directly from the repositories and not via an xml file! I’m using version 0.6.6 and got an xml file from 01/17/2008. This is half a year old!! Many plugins are not listed in the file and it is likely that all or are at least most of the plugins are out of date. This makes your extension manager simply useless.
The other way would to update the xml file automatically every hour or so, but as far as I can tell it takes quite a wile for generation (I’m currently running your crawl.sh script for approx. 15 minutes and it’s still working). So this would not be very convenient.

So if you get the plugin information directly from the repository the list would be always up-to-date.

The second thing to do would be a styling upgrade to look nice in Wordpress 2.5. As you’ve already stated: It looks ugly.

I also get the following error when I hit the manage button (Plugin Version: 0.6.6, PHP 5.2.0)

Warning: array_filter() [function.array-filter]: An error occurred while invoking the filter callback in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/extension-manager/FileHelper.php on line 143

Thanks for your work.

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:07:23 +0000

It looks ugly but works.

By: Neil Stead

Neil Stead — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:03:20 +0000

Has anyone tested this with Wordpress 2.5?

By: frlevel

frlevel — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:20:28 +0000

Hi,

When I select “Install Plugins” or “Install Themes”, I have the following error:

Correct these errors first:
 
Can't open file 'http://data.christianschenk.org/wordpress-extensions-manager/data/plugins-update.txt'

php version : 5.2.4

Thanks for your help !

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:15:13 +0000

Hello Lionel,
PHP version? 4? Since I haven’t got the time to support PHP 4 you’ll have to upgrade to PHP 5.

By: Lionel Chollet

Lionel Chollet — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:27:55 +0000

Bug report
WordPress 2.5.1 - Extension Manager 0.6.6.
Error whien activating:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{’ in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/extension-manager/extension-manager.php on line 68

By: eno

eno — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:41:42 +0000

Hey Christian, thanks for creating/distributing the plugin. I got it installed no problem and activated, but when I go to the Settings->Extension Manager page/tab, I receive this rather silly error message:

“You’re running PHP 5.2.0. Please update to at least PHP 5.2 or be patient until this plugin works with PHP 4.”

… uh… what’s wrong with this picture? Any ideas?

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:12:49 +0000

Hi John,

Ah okay have just seen that it doesn’t work with PHP 4 and probably never will.

From a developer’s point of view it’s a lot easier to use PHP 5 than its predecessor. Since I haven’t got that much time to provide a version that would work with PHP 4 too it’s “PHP 5 only”.

Will get back to the hosters and tell them to get on with upgrading (to a PHP that was first released almost 4 years ago!)

The part in parentheses makes me believe that you understand my “PHP 5 only” policy. Thanks.