Simple editing of plugin options in WortdPress
WordPress 1.2 has a simple built-in mechanism to generate an edit form with all options from one particular group. Unfortunately this has been removed in the CVS version. I hope that something similar will still be possible in the final 1.3 version…
Here is how I am using it in my current version of the PictPress plugin. This adds my own group of options if not already present:
$pp_group_id = $wpdb->get_var(\"SELECT group_id FROM $tableoptiongroups
WHERE group_name = 'PictPress'\");
if (!$pp_group_id) {
$wpdb->query(
\"INSERT INTO $tableoptiongroups
(group_name, group_desc)
VALUES
('PictPress', 'Settings used by PictPress plugin.')\"
);
$pp_group_id = $wpdb->insert_id;
}Then we have to keep a sequence number of the number of options that have been added to the group:
$pp_option_seq = 0;
And this function adds an option to my group:
function pp_add_option ($name, $type, $width, $value, $desc) {
global $wpdb, $tableoptions, $tableoptiongroup_options,
$pp_group_id, $pp_option_seq;
$pp_option_seq++;
$id = $wpdb->get_var(\"SELECT option_id FROM $tableoptions
WHERE option_name = '$name'\");
if (!$id) {
$wpdb->query(\"INSERT INTO $tableoptions
(option_name, option_value, option_description,
option_type, option_admin_level, option_width)
VALUES
('$name', '$value', '$desc', $type, 8, $width)\"
);
$id = $wpdb->insert_id;
$wpdb->query(\"INSERT INTO $tableoptiongroup_options
(group_id, option_id, seq)
VALUES
($pp_group_id, $id, $pp_option_seq)\"
);
}
}The edit form for this group of options is shown by going to the URL wp-admin/options.php?option_group_id=$pp_group_id. An entry for PictPress also automagically appears on all Options pages. Note that Link Manager was already using this mechanism. It would be a shame if such a low threshold edit form would disappear in 1.3…