writing in plugin directory is a bad idea

nliautaud / p01contact

Create contact forms by writing simple tags. Also a plugin for GetSimple and Pico CMS.

MIT License

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writing in plugin directory is a bad idea #11

Closed df8oe closed 6 years ago

df8oe commented 7 years ago

Hello,

I am using getsimple symlinked to mnany different websites. Plugins directory is symlinked and not writeable for customer websites. So it is mandatory to move configuration file config.php to data directory. So p01contact plugin works symlinked, too.

Todo:

at first configuration test if p01config.php exists in data directory. If not, copy template from plugins directory.
if p01config.php exist use this for storing individual settings of website.

Best regards Andreas

nliautaud commented 7 years ago

Hi,

An implementation of that feature should consider that p01-contact is also functional as a standalone script, or may be used with another CMS (the only handle to GS here being p01-contact_gs.php). Thus, directory structures and strategies may differ.

So you could probably add a "config_path" setting, empty for default path, and if this setting is defined the alternate file is created/used.