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1. Alexandre Vallières-Lagacé
   Member
   Posted 3 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!

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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.

3. Alexandre Vallières-Lagacé
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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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