[pmwiki-users] Keeping recipes up to date

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:08:20PM -0000, marc wrote:
> > Ah well, another customised recipe for my collection :-| Thank heavens 
> > for Subversion.
> 
> Well, I think we can avoid the need for customized recipes.
> I wouldn't see any big problem with rewriting the recipeupdates.php
> script (and blocklist.php, and other scripts that want to do url fopens) 
> to make use of a custom function if present and fallback to
> fopen() if not.
> 
> For example, in recipeupdates.php, instead of
> 
>     $fp = fopen($list, 'r');
>     # ...
> 
> we could just as easily do
> 
>     global $UrlFopen;
>     SDV($UrlFopen, 'fopen');
>     $fp = $UrlFopen($list, 'r');
>     # ...
> 
> Then a site could supply a custom setting for $UrlFopen that
> does the equivalent of fopen with allow_url_fopen enabled.
> Then any sites that have allow_url_fopen disabled can just
> include_once('cookbook/urlfopen.php') to load a custom 
> function for url-based file retrievals.

Looks okay to me.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc