[ php-blog-Feature Requests-1771722 ] add templates_local and plugins_local directories

Feature Requests item #1771722, was opened at 2007-08-10 14:54
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Submitted By: Christian Boltz (christian_boltz)
>Assigned to: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Summary: add templates_local and plugins_local directories

Initial Comment:
When doing a shared installation, symlinking the templates and the plugins is too difficult because the same directory can contain subdirs shipped with s9y and subdirs later installed by the user.

The current way is:
    cd plugins && ln -s ../s9y-shared/plugins/*
which results in lots of symlinks.

The better way would be to have
a) a symlink to the shared plugins directory (like the htmlarea symlink)
b) another directory ("plugins-local") for plugins installed by the user

Advantages:
- less symlinks needed
- no manual work required in case s9y ships with more templates or plugins one day (with the current way, you have to create a symlink for the new plugin)
- read-only and writeable directories (from user's and webserver's POV) are better separated
- users can install newer versions of plugins in their plugins-local directory

All this is also valid for templates.

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>Comment By: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Date: 2007-08-10 16:40

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Hi!

Why don't you, like the documentation says, symlink only the template and
plugin subdirectory? You don't need to symlink EACH subdirectory...?

Adding a new _local subdirectory would largely increase the overhead for
parsing plugins and templates, this will not likely be added.

In a shared install, it is much better to not allow users to install own
plugins, that removes the intention of a shared central installation :)

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