[Plugin: WPGPlus] error notices

Well, it is a pre 1.0 version, in development. I suspect by 1.0 the notices will be gone, but for now they are helpful to have in order to investigate what’s gone wrong.

For example from what you’ve posts here I can see that your host permissions are not allowing wpgplus to create files where it needs to, resulting in the fwrite errors and the touch error – wpgplus needs to be able to create and edit the cookies.txt file, and needs to be able to write a debug.txt in its own directory.

Further, the curl error lets me know that this won’t work for you because of the way safe mode is configured by your PHP.

Obviously the plugin could do a better job of determining this and just stopping, but like I said, it is a development version . . .

If by the “wp way of writing to plugins folder” you mean http://codex.wordpress.org/Filesystem_API, I’d rather not have to ask the user for ftp credentials to their hosting provider just to set a cookie.

I will look into using wp-content/uploads/ instead, though personally I’d prefer plugins keep their files in their own directories.

Using the wp HTTP API rather than cUrl is definitely an option as the plugin matures (and I have used it in other plugins) but in development stages I prefer to use curl directly as it keeps the code more portable outside WordPress.

This plugin started as a port of a non-WordPress specific PHP script (as noted in the readme and in the code itself). It’s going to be much easier to keep up with updates of that script if I stay in curl than if I migrate to the wp HTTP API.

thomas – check out version 0.8 – I’ve migrated to WordPress HTTP API, using transients for cookies, and made the debug file optional.