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Package whip
Short Description A WordPress package to nudge users to upgrade their software versions (starting with PHP)
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Homepage https://github.com/Yoast/whip
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Informations about the package whip
whip
A WordPress package to nudge users to upgrade their software versions (starting with PHP)
Requirements
All the PHP versions from 5.3 up to the latest are supported.
WordPress is also required for certain functionality:
- The
WPMessagePresenterrequires WordPress or a function calledadd_action, to hook into WordPress. - The
PHPVersionDetectorrequires WordPress or a function called__, to translate strings.
Installation
Usage
The easiest way to use Whip in WordPress is by using the included function to check the versions. In this case checking if PHP 5.6 or greater is installed:
This will show a message to all users of your plugin on PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.5. By default the message will be shown on every page of the admin and to every user. It is up to the implementing plugin to restrict this to certain users and/or pages.
Adding a message as a host
It is possible to add a custom message to the PHP version message by setting specific environment variables:
The WHIP_NAME_OF_HOST environment variable could be reused in the future for showing messages about different software packages.
Both the name and the message for PHP can also be changed using WordPress filters:
The WordPress filters can also read the value previously set by the environment variables.
As a general rule, the filter is the same as the environment variable, but lowercased.
Linking to the WordPress.org hosting page
We have created a hosting overview page on yoast.com which only contains hosts that we've vetted. The PHP message links to this page by default. If you really prefer to link to the WordPress.org hosting page that is possible. Just use the whip_hosting_page_url_wordpress filter:
Backwards compatibility policy
We follow semantic versioning with an extra strict rule for MAJOR versions. We will do a major version bump whenever we add new methods. We have to do this because of the shared namespace in PHP. When this package will be used in multiple plugins we cannot safely add and use a method without bumping a major version. This is because the version without the new method may be autoloaded and then a fatal error occurs.
This also means that any major version bump is accompanied by an update of every namespace in the package. So for version 3 of this package all the Yoast\WHIPv2 namespaces will become Yoast\WHIPv3. This prevents fatal errors when two plugins include different versions of this package.
Changelog
Security
If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.
