Hello,
I'm trying to access my plugin version, defined in `version.php`, from elsewhere in my plugin PHP code.
The use case is: my plugin makes several calls to an external server, and I'd like to add the plugin version to each request so that it can be logged in the external server.
Is there any way to get the currently installed plugin version without hardcoding anything?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
I'm honestly not sure if its in a variable that you can call (looking forward to learning that!)
But worst case scenario, if it isn't, then it is held in the database, so you could make a database call and store it as a variable in your plugin to use and send to the external server. Should be something like:
SELECT value FROM {config_plugins} WHERE plugin = 'your_pluginname' and name = 'version';
Hi Thomas,
to get the version of any plugin even subplugin you could write a simple function like that:
function get_version_from_plugin($component) {
list($plugintype, $pluginname) = core_component::normalize_component($component);
$pluginpath = core_component::get_plugin_directory($plugintype, $pluginname);
$plugin = new \stdClass();
require $pluginpath.'/version.php';
return $plugin->version;
}
Then you can use this function like that:
$qtypeversion = get_version_from_plugin('qtype_calculated');
I hope this helps.
Best regards
Andreas