[Question] How to run not as a plugin?

[OwenMelbz]

Hey,

Came across your package today, and it seems to do pretty much exactly what we're after,

However we don't really like the idea of having an "optional" plugin - which is required by a theme - e.g if they disable the plugin, the theme will break.

As there is a direct relationship between bladerunner and the theme, it seems sensible to able to almost force the bladerunner dependency behind the scenes.

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So is it possible to load your package, e.g within a theme functions.php via something like new Ekandreas\Bladerunner instead of having to load a whole plugin for it?

The reason we noticed this is because all our packages are fully loaded through composer, so having 1 package randomly loading as a plugin seems weird?

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Thanks, and much appreciate time and effort you've put into this project!

[ekandreas]

Yes, I understand your point of view. I share it. It is a plugin because we need some basic integration points (hooks/filters) with WP. You can place it as a mu-plugin if you want. Or perhaps use philo/laravel-blade which is much lighter (no controllers, etc). It would be nice to use Bladerunner as a vendor package and make the hooks manually in theme code. But for now it is not possible.

[OwenMelbz]

I've been having a look around, and I see the problem for more vanilla wordpress installs.

Although I had a little play around, and reduced the overhead to

add_action('after_setup_theme', function () {
    new Ekandreas\BladerunnerLoader;
});

the new BladerunnerLoader class basically does the

public function __construct() {
    array_map(function ($file) {
        $file = "globals/{$file}.php";
        require_once($file);
    }, ['helpers', 'setup', 'filters']);
}

Would be interesting to see how easy it will be to provide a maintainable alternative loading mechanism.

[ekandreas]

Great! Place a filter to the plugin loader? Perhaps a PR? :-) Great!

[OwenMelbz]

Well at the moment it completely breaks traditional wordpress installs :D so no where near PR ready lol

If I can see a way to make it work with both, without having to and 2 code-bases then i'll try get one going

[vpillinger]

Maybe I am missing something here. But I was able to put the blade-runner folder in my theme and reference it via require_once __DIR__ . '/bladerunner/bladerunner.php'; at the top of my functions file. Everything appeared to keep working properly.

The only additional step that I needed to do was run 'composer update' in the blade-runner folder, but this is a normal installation step anyway.

What is the exact issue that was prevent anyone from doing this before? I am guessing that there is some minor performance loss or something similar because everything keeps getting reinitialized on every load?

[ekandreas]

Hi! This is a deprecated package. Please use https://github.com/EFTEC/BladeOne instead!