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1. TonyVitabile
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm debugging my plugin. I activated it some time ago but there were so many errors in it, the activation hook never got called (I think). The code on that hook in my plug in tries to create the 5 or so tables my plugin needs in the wordpress database.

   When I finally got most of those error cleared up, I saw a message from my plugin at the top of my admin page that said it couldn't create the tables. When I looked at the wordpress database, only 1 of the tables was there.

   I deleted the table & deactivated the plugin. Then I reactivated it. Several times. I added calls to a debug() function I got in another thread around the call to the function that creates the table, as well as calls to it within that function. I don't see those messages, and I've got DEBUG set to true.

   Any ideas why I'm not seeing my activation code getting called?

   Tony

2. TonyVitabile
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   OK, the activation hook seems to be calling my code, even though my debug() function isn't working. That's probably a PHP issue & due to my newness to PHP itself. Basically, I put the following code into my main plugin PHP file:

   define( 'DEBUG', true );

   function debug() {
   if ( DEBUG ) {
   $args = func_get_args();
   $args[ 0 ] = "
   

   " . $args[ 0 ] . "

   \n";

   for ( $i = 1, $l = count($args); $i < $l; $i++ ) {
   $args[$i] = htmlspecialchars(var_export($args[$i], true));
   }

   call_user_func_array('printf', $args);
}
}


   This happens to be before the includes for the other files (there are lots of them) that make up the plugin. So my guess is that even though I'm calling it, the function isn't being resolved in the included files.

   So I suppose I need to put this function & the define into a file that everything includes, right?

   Tony

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