How to find out if an wp-admin action edited a file?

Question

How to find out if an wp-admin action edited a file?

janpio

2013年11月3日 07:19

I want to create a small plugin to automatically purge the APC opcode cache after specific actions in the Wordpress admin interface. This is necessary if e.g. apc.stat is set to 0, as a change to a file then doesn't reset its cache value in the opcode cache and so calls will use the old, cached, out-of-date file. Total debug nightmare if you forget to clear the cache manually.

Is there an easy way to find out if an action edited/changed a file?

I could manually check if is_admin and POST and file is e.g. theme-editor.php, but this seems like a not very nice hack that is bound to miss some things.

Topic apc admin wp-admin Wordpress

Category Web

Mark Kaplun · Accepted Answer · 2013年11月3日 07:19

You should set APC to not check file updates only on deployment environment. If you give access to change the code then it is not a deployment environment.

In general what you are trying to do violate a basic monitoring rule - a software/device should not monitor itself, as it might get into a condition in which the monitoring can not be done. In your case you will find it hard to fix your monitoring code if there is a bug in it.

A better solution is to have an external program which monitors file changes under the wordpress root directory and clears the cache when it is detected. It will be much smaller , more reliable and easier to maintain then what you are trying to do here. (since you have APC I assume you have your own VPS and can hook to the file change notification service which all OSs has now)

s_ha_dum · Accepted Answer · 2013年11月2日 17:43

The system redirects after an update with updated=true. You could check for that GET parameter on the load-theme-editor.php hook, something like:

add_action(
  'load-theme-editor.php',
  function() {
    if (isset($_GET['updated']) && true == $_GET['updated']) {
      // clear the cache
    }
  }
);

I looked for more specific hooks and couldn't find any, by the way.

How to find out if an wp-admin action edited a file?

About