Quote Originally Posted by Chris2009 View Post
MrH, a small suggestion 4 ur plugin manager:

see the 1st arrow, Options, should only be available if mod is installed.

see the 2nd arrow, Install, should'nt be available if mod IS installed.

see the 3rd arrow, Uninstall should only be available if mod IS installed.
Valid points.

First the install link
If you are having trouble with a module you can click the install link at anytime. This will re-install it restoring it to default options and settings. Any saved data is preserved. For example. Let's say you have the ACP Module and you've done something weird to the settings and now you have no re-rate options. By clicking the Install link it will restore the default settings and options but preserve all the re-rates you've made to sites. If on the other hand you were to uninstall the module and then re-install it you would lose all the re-rate logs as uninstalling it removes saved data. Should the name change to Re-Install or Restore Default Settings? Ya it probably should.

For the Options
With a lot of my newer modules you can go straight to settings and when saving the options and settings it will notice if the module is not installed and will do so allowing you to skip the install process completely. An example of this is the Admin Protection Module.

For the Uninstall
Things can go wrong. You could have a similar module by someone else or an old version which is corrupt making it difficult to tell which is installed and which isn't.

Yes the whole Plugin Manager could be a hell of a lot better. I asked for a plugin Manager of some type to be installed by default into WCDDL and I do believe JmZ will add one sometime in the future which will make everything easier. At the moment it's hard as to re-code the Plugin Manager to the way I want it to work would require all the released modules to have elements re-coded. I'll think about it but it's a hell of a lot of work and I'd prefer to see it added by default instead by JmZ.