Add config parameter from plugin

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1

I’d like to extend a Kirby website by a small snippet. To keep everything together in one place I thought it is a good idea to create a small custom plugin including css file, blueprint and snippet.

This is working good so far, but to get everything going, at the moment I need to edit site/config/config.php and add a parameter value for another already used plugin for this to be aware of the new snippet ‘new-value’.

This looks like:

return [
   'old.plugin' => [
        'parameter' => ['value1', 'value2', 'new-value'],
    ],
];

But I’d like to remove the need to edit this file outside of the plugin folder if possible. I’d prefer to add the ‘new-value’ from within the new plugin. I thought this can be achived by keeping the config file as it is

return [
   'old.plugin' => [
        'parameter' => ['value1', 'value2'],
    ],
];

and use a hook in the new plugin like:

Kirby::plugin('new/plugin', [
    'hooks' => [
        'system.loadPlugins:after' => function () {
            kirby()->extend([
                'options' => [
                    'parameter'  => ['new-value']
                ]
            ], kirby()->plugin('old/plugin'));
        }
    ]
]);

But this doesn’t work. The hook is executed, but

option('old.plugin.parameter')

still just contains ‘value1’ and ‘value2’.

Any ideas how to get this solved just from within the new plugin?

2

Not really. You want this value to be available in the old plugin. But the hook is called after all plugins are already loaded, so I don’t think this can affect other plugins but only the current one.