As @Buttered_Toast and @Sébastien Serre mentioned I first need to save file to a local directory before unzipping. So here is my final code: $source=”http://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/ona-creative.1.0.0.zip”; $file = get_theme_root() . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $slug . ‘.zip’; file_put_contents( $file, file_get_contents( $source )); $unzipfile = unzip_file( $file, get_theme_root() );
can’t unzip file
@Scott B I have not tested this script, taken from inlcudes/file.php -> line 559 _unzip_file_pclzip assumes WP_Filesystem() has already been called, so you need to set up global $wp_filesystem global $wp_filesystem; $needed_dirs = array(); $target = trailingslashit($target); // Determine any parent dir’s needed (of the upgrade directory) if ( ! $wp_filesystem->is_dir($target) ) { //Only do … Read more
There is a bug in some versions of PHP itself, unzip hangs. PHP 5.2.17 hangs, PHP 5.3.24 works as expected. PHP Change Log http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.4 says PHP Version 5.3.4 released 09-Dec-2010 – “Fixed crash in zip extract method (possible CWE-170)”. (Note: 5.3.24 released 11-April-2013, and is no longer the latest version.) http://lcblog.lernerconsult.com/2013-php-unzip-bug-makes-wordpress-updates-hang/ has the PHP program … Read more
As long as everything was made according to WP best practices all your manually installed versions will update the same as the ones installed from wordpress.org. The updater looks at many things to identify your plugin. However, the most important is the plugin URI (you can change the directory of many plugins and they will … Read more
Try to clear the buffer before returning your AJAX response. public function request_handler() { $post = $_POST; $data = $post[‘data’]; $this->zip_file(); ob_clean(); echo json_encode($data); die(); }
There is no way to prevent the free distribution of your theme. You could make it harder by selling a copy that is restricted to a license key and a salted hash of the domain. But even if you put the code for this in a pre-compiled script it will be possible to get around … Read more
require_once(ABSPATH .’/wp-admin/includes/file.php’); global $wp_filesystem; if ( ! $filesystem ) { WP_Filesystem(); if ( ! $wp_filesystem ) nuke_the_world_because_wpfs_cannot_be_initialized_in_case_of_missing_arguments(‘!’); } $result = unzip_file( $zip, $dest ); if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) nuke_the_world(); Maybe some error handling make it easier.
Note the stricter mime type check since WP 5.0.1 where the file content and file extension must match. See e.g. this recent question on the vtt file type. Secondary mime type for a given file extension Here’s a suggestion how to support a secondary mime type for a given file extension. Let’s take .vtt as … Read more