Plugin load order?

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Let’s say I have these plugins…

custom-plugin
test-plugin

Now the “test-plugin” is like a core plugin and the “custom-plugin” is more of a configuration plugin with custom functions.

Plugin name desides load order

“custom-plugin” is loaded before “test-plugin”. In this case it will be a problem because “custom-plugin” uses functions from “test-plugin”.

Is there a way to manage the plugin load order? I can rename the plugin but I don’t feel it should be desided by its name?

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You can load your plugin dependencies from within the plugin that needs it:

$returnValue = kirby()->plugin('test-plugin');

The test-plugin plugin won’t be loaded again later, so using that function as often as you need doesn’t cause any problems. The return value is stored for later use.

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Very simple, clever and it worked out of the box.

I’m also very impressed about your knowlage about code and Kirby. You often have awesome answers to hardcore questions. Thanks!

4

Thanks a lot! :blush:
Since I’m regularly helping developing Kirby in my spare time for I guess three years now, I have been digging through the Kirby code a lot. :wink:

5

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[… sorry for that spam post]

6

Glad you don’t know how often I have heard this joke in both English and German. :smiley:

7

Is there also a workaround to init the own plugin before all the others?

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its alphabetically so maybe just use _myplugin as a folder name or aaaa_myplugin?

9

and there is this

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Nice! Thank you. :hugs: