Plugin: How to download and upate plugin files?

  • Alexandre

    (@0xcafe-1)


    16 years ago

    Hi,

    I want to write a plugin and one of the functionality would be to connect to a website, download a zip file and extract it to the plugin folder.

    How can I achieve that in PHP? Any plugin you know already does it so I can check out how they do it?

    Thanks!

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    Isn’t that what the native ability to update plugins does?

    Also look at the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin for ideas–though the plugin in no longer necessary.

    Thread Starter Alexandre

    (@0xcafe-1)

    Not exactly. I do not want the plugin itself to update, but the plugin to update on of the files (datafile) it needs to work.

    It’s a small data file that gets updated once in a while, so it would check a website at regular interval (set in options) and update this file.

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