Currently creating a plugin with cURL and I need a place that will work for most WordPress servers (Unix or Windows) to store my cookie file. Anyone have a suggestion or best practices? I've been googling for a while now and I think I found something about wp_temp_dir, but googling that keyword gives me only a thousand and one results about solving some install error.
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Transients seem to be appropriate storage. Just note that if you will generate a lot of this and they will be disposable then you will need to cleanup old transients.
As for your cURL/filename issue - it is bad practice to use cURL directly in WordPress. WP provides HTTP API that abstracts remote requests.
Unfortunately it is bit poorly documented. As far as I understand you pass cookies in arguments array with cookies key to its functions.
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Got everything to work and recoded everything to use the WordPress HTTP API. This page really helped by the way, planetozh.com/blog/2009/08/… It's a little dated but the info still applies to the new HTTP API on the codex.– ThirlanCommented Mar 23, 2011 at 4:14
You could store cookies in transients. That way, its absctracted enough from the actual storage location that it should work across environments. Transients are stored in the wp_options table of the database by default, but can be memcached by plugins.
answered Mar 4, 2011 at 18:17
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I don't know if this works : ( the php cURL code requires that a filename be passed in.
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $this->getCookieFile());– ThirlanCommented Mar 21, 2011 at 1:32 -
How do I move this question by the way? Or do I just have to repost it?– ThirlanCommented Mar 21, 2011 at 1:45