WP2 Plugin environment bug

I finally got my LDAP plugin ported to WP2 from WP 1.5.2 but found a bug in the WP2 plugin environment.

It seems that wp-config.php isn’t always used when plugin functions are called.

Defining something in wp-config.php:

define(‘LDAP_COOKIE_MARKER’, ‘LDAP’);

doesn’t always propagate through to the plugin function. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.

e.g.

echo “<br>”.LDAP_COOKIE_MARKER.”<br>”;

from within a plugin function will sometimes display “LDAP” and other times display “LDAP_COOKIE_MARKER”.

This wasn’t the case in 1.5.2 when defines in wp-config.php always propagated to the plugin functions.

Defining LDAP_COOKIE_MARKER locally in the plugin PHP file solves the problem.