No you don’t, and not even sure if you can use it for listing files in directories. The only limitation on reading files is that they will be readable to the web server, and obviously plugin directories has to be readable for the web server to be able to read the PHP files. Now, if … Read more
It appears to be a typo corrected by SergeyBiryukov in the Github Repo for 5.6 : https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/a5edb2a8a15697440dff359fac53c27dd2067db3
There is no need to use the WP filesystem API if you are trying to access directories to which the web server has full access. It is needed mainly only when you want to write to directories which have limited access like the plugin directory. From that point of view the two snippets are the … Read more
Not quite right. WordPress only requests FTP credentials if it cannot modify files. That’s the important bit from Rarst’s reply. This all comes down to who owns the files and does php (and WordPress) have access via either the group and/or user to modify these files? The default is to use php’s filesystem extension which … Read more
Is there function similar to wp_upload_bits() that will allow uploading to a specific path?
WP_Filesystem abstraction is primarily meant for performing plugin/theme/core updates, especially in environments with restricted writes. As such it doesn’t really implement full range of possible file operations, as you noted there is no ability to write to the end of file in declared API. More so some possible implementations (depending on file system) might not … Read more
After changing FTP_BASE in my wp-config i found the update function of WP broken. Then i realize the update function work the same way and don’t need any additional settings. In wp-admin/includes/update-core.php i found the usage of $wp_filesystem->wp_content_dir(). This solves my problem too. On http://xref.wordpress.org/branches/3.8/WordPress/Filesystem/WP_Filesystem_Base.html you will find a list of possible useful functions: string … Read more
Directly accessing the filesystem for writing is evil… for most of the cases where people are actually doing that. If you’re editing an image file, and it is in the wp-content/uploads directory, then you know, whatever. That’s not the common case. Plugins and themes don’t typically do that because they don’t have to do that. … Read more