Tim's (Mostly) Tech Tidbits

Here is a little tidbit that has helped me when programming WordPress plugins.

Use a single setting…
Example

<?php

$options = get_option( 'pluginShortNameSettings' );

echo $options['settingA'];
echo $options['settingB'];
echo $options['settingC'];
echo $options['settingD'];
?>

This simplifies the code necessary to load all the settings for your plugin - it reduces it to a single line.

Further, when coding plugins, I separate the code for displaying the options form from the code required to save the new settings.

<?php
function pluginNameSaveOptions()
{
  $options = get_option( 'pluginShortNameSettings' );
  $options['settingA'] = stripslashes( $_POST['settingA'] );
  $options['settingB'] = stripslashes( $_POST['settingB'] );
  $options['settingC'] = stripslashes( $_POST['settingC'] );
  $options['settingD'] = stripslashes( $_POST['settingD'] );
  update_option( 'pluginShortNameSettings', $options );

}

function pluginNameOptionsForm()
{
  pluginNameSaveOptions();
  $options = get_option( 'pluginShortNameSettings' );
  // form xhtml here
}

?>

This is the form that is working very well these days.

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Posted by Tim on Monday, January 15th, 2007 at 7:02 pm.