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 09/08/04 06:03am (Read 2,911 times)  
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magomarcelo

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I was wondering if it was possible to use symbolic links, insteading of copying and renaming the directories pubilc_html, admin etc within the directory structure of a plugin.

This would have the advantage not to scatter things and to allow an easier upgrade of plugins.

This works for anything excluding the CSS update, which requires the style.css to be modified. I don't know if there are alternative ways to import automatically without changing the original style.css...
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 09/08/04 03:16pm  
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Quote by magomarcelo: I was wondering if it was possible to use symbolic links, insteading of copying and renaming the directories pubilc_html, admin etc within the directory structure of a plugin.

This should work, if your webserver supports it (it's a config option in Apache).

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 09/09/04 10:30am  
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magomarcelo

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I was speaking too soon
I get this error when accessing pages that reference lib-common.php as relative path:
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PHP Fatal error:  main(): Failed opening required '../lib-common.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /usr/local/geeklog-1.3.9/forum/index.php on line 37
 
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 09/09/04 01:34pm  
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magomarcelo

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I've found a solution myself, it is necessary to make a symlink also for the file lib-common.php file within the directory of the specific plugin.

Here is a working file system layout, with the possibility to switch between two different versions of the forum plugin:
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/usr/local/geeklog/plugins/forum -> forum-2.3.1/
/usr/local/geeklog/plugins/forum-2.3
/usr/local/geeklog/plugins/forum-2.3.1
/usr/local/geeklog/plugins/forum-2.3.1/lib-common.php -> ../../public_html/lib-common.php
/usr/local/geeklog/plugins/forum-2.3/lib-common.php -> ../../public_html/lib-common.php
/usr/local/geeklog/lib-common.php -> public_html/lib-common.php
/usr/local/geeklog/public_html/forum -> ../plugins/forum/public_html/
/usr/local/geeklog/public_html/admin/plugins/forum -> ../../../plugins/forum/admin/

 
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