Use system temporary directory for cache (if possible)

The default cache directory is located under wp-content/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/captcha/cache. On a first installation, users have to know to make this directory writable. But more imporantly, they need to remember to change the permissions every time the plugin is updated. This is easy to forget, and it breaks the captcha until someone notices.

There are a few known-writable temporary directories that might make better first choices. In PHP >= 5.5, there is a per-vhost configuration variable called sys_temp_dir that is accessible through sys_get_temp_dir(). Prior to PHP 5.5, the sys_get_temp_dir() still works, but it returns the system temporary directory and is not configurable per-vhost.

There is also the upload_tmp_dir setting. You can find its value with ini_get(), and it has been available for a while. It can be set per-vhost. The downside is that it’s not really intended to be a temporary directory; it’s only meant for uploads — thus the name. So it’d be abusing it a little to use it as a cache.

Finally, if neither of those work, falling back to the current cache directory is always a possibility. But it would be ideal to use the per-vhost temporary directory if it’s available.

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