Plugin - Using external PHP files?

Hello, I have wrote a plugin that I would like to use on several sites but distribute it from one location.

Can I create a plugin in each modx evo 1.0.4 site using cURL to collect the PHP file? I thought about cURL since the sites will need to access the file from another web server.

I have tried but the code isn’t being executed. I wonder if this is possible.

Thanks.

OK figured out how to access the external php file but there’s no access to the session. I created a plugin to call in the external file using fopen and I can echo basic things like Hello... but it will not return any modx session data. Could someone tell me how I can do that?

Quote from: rossco at Nov 05, 2010, 03:14 PM

Hello, I have wrote a plugin that I would like to use on several sites but distribute it from one location.

Can I create a plugin in each modx evo 1.0.4 site using cURL to collect the PHP file? I thought about cURL since the sites will need to access the file from another web server.

I have tried but the code isn’t being executed. I wonder if this is possible.

Executing php code from other WEB server is not safe.

But if you want to get your php code from other web server you should save it in file with non-php extension (like mycode.phps or mycode.txt). In this case apache (or other web server) will send it "As is" without php-handling.

To include remote php code:


$_SESSION and other predefined PHP vars are available both in included scripts and in "eval code"

Good luck!

Thanks for the reply.

What are the alternatives? I want to control the use of a piece of my code on a couple sites from one location that is not on the same server. Would coding something that would only allow a specific IP or some other check and using be a good option? I know passing things from one server to another is not safe but I do want to only have to update one file.

Quote from: rossco at Nov 06, 2010, 02:07 PM

allow a specific IP or some other check
...

Do it at your own risk.

I think it’s better to update files on all servers via FTP by some program or script.
To use php you can gSearch for "php ftp ftp_connect" etc...
It takes about 5-10 minutes to write it and less 1 min to each update.

Yeah I have already been looking at that option. Thanks for the tips.