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rah_plugin_installer
Upload, install, update and manage rah-plugins directly from your Textpattern backend, with out any need of browsing complicated sites or searching scrattered plugin installation files.
- Simple install: just run the automatic plugin install. No need to upload any files nor set permissions.
- Download and install rah-family plugin directly from your Textpattern backend.
- Smart real server side caching mechanism.
- Simple admin panel, Plugin Installer, under Textpattern > Extensions.
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Re: rah_plugin_installer
Can anyone confirm that this plugin works with Textpattern 4.0.8? I was using it swell before upgrading, but now it doesn’t load anything when I “Fetch and update plugin list,” even though it displays the message “Plugin table synched with server”. This occurs with both the compressed and uncompressed versions of the plugin.
Thanks!
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johnstephens wrote:
Can anyone confirm that this plugin works with Textpattern 4.0.8?
Rah FAQs are your friends ;) Simply said, yes it works. Most likely it is a server issue, rah or yours. Just downloaded plugin via the installer and it definetly worked. Check your remote connection settings and firewall.
If you click “install” or “update” -button on some plugin what happens? If it says “server timed out” etc, then the fault is on your end, either in PHP remote connections settings, connection or firewall.
Note that all rah -plugins work with setups descriped in FAQs and/or in docs. All unworking plugins are removed or fixed. Yes, we constantly test rah -plugins with different server setups and so on. If plugin doesn’t work, nobody can get it (safety is priority one). :)
Last edited by Gocom (2009-01-28 03:24:42)
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Thanks, Jukka. Problem solved— I enabled allow_url_fopen. I’ve used this plugin from my local development server for several sites, but never on my live server, and I didn’t know this extra step was necessary.
As I said above, I couldn’t get the plugin list at all; “install” and “update” were unavailable. Now it’s working fine.
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Finally, version 0.2 has been released. Changelog:
- Added more validity and error checks.
- Added timeout support for update downloads. 3 seconds for update checks and 10 seconds for actual files.
- Added option to turn automatic-updates off.
- Cleaned the admin panel.
- Fixed manual update check.
- Fixed possible conflicts with other extension that included
txp_plugin.php.
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Any idea why I would be getting this error on 4.4.1 sites when I click on “install”:
I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that. I think rah_plugin_installer plugin_verify is no safe operation at this time.I’ve checked and double-checked and it doesn’t happen on the exact same installation(s) with 4.4.0 — I have many on this server and rah_plugin_installer works great on 4.4.0, but breaks when I upgrade… I’ve tried re-installing the plugin even found a couple of installations that didn’t have it at all pre-upgrade and still doesn’t work.
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Isn’t that the CSRF protection error message?
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visualpeople wrote:
I’ve checked and double-checked and it doesn’t happen on the exact same installation(s) with 4.4.0 — I have many on this server and rah_plugin_installer works great on 4.4.0, but breaks when I upgrade… I’ve tried re-installing the plugin even found a couple of installations that didn’t have it at all pre-upgrade and still doesn’t work.
Thank you for reporting that. That’s very known. Unfortunately the plugin isn’t TXP 4.4.1 compatible. An update is coming soon-ish, but may take a while.
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Version 0.3 and 0.4 (in form of quick bug fix) have been released. Mainly adds Textpattern v4.4.1 compatibility, but also adds additional security in form of CSRF protection and new update file format. v0.4 (and 0.3) require Textpattern v4.4.1 or newer.
Full list of changes:
- Compatibility with Textpattern v4.4.1.
- Added: Support for cURL library and prefers it if installed. If not installed, uses regular file functions as fallback.
- Added: Localization and language string support. TextPacks can be used to translate the admin interface.
- Added: Build in uninstaller.
- Added: CSRF protection using Textpattern v4.4.1 new features.
- Changed: Moved the preference strings to Textpattern’s core txp_prefs table.
- Changed: HTML5 ready markup, added
<tbody>and<thead>elements to the HTML table and removed inline styles. - Improved: New update file format. The syntax is similar to Textpattern’s language files.
- Improved: Additional validation when downloading update files.
- Improved: Now update files are parsed and inserted to database as individual rows instead of cached and parsed on every page request. Allows future expansions.
- Now requires Textpattern v4.4.1 or newer.
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Wow — I know you said your update may take a while, but 7 hours? That’s a pretty darn quick turnaround in my book!
Thanks so much the update seems to be great so far. Love the addition of the “Options” link from the plugins page — makes installing several plugins at once much more fun.
An amazing job as usual! Not sure I could use Textpattern without all you wonderful plugin creators!
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