Uninstall Function - Revision history

Dirk: added link to Plugin Auto-Uninstall

2009-05-06T08:05:37Z

added link to Plugin Auto-Uninstall

Dirk: Fixed version number (1.4.2 -> 1.5.0)

2009-02-05T16:22:51Z

Fixed version number (1.4.2 -> 1.5.0)

Tokyoahead at 09:58, 11 February 2007

2007-02-11T09:58:08Z

Tomw at 14:41, 2 July 2004

2004-07-02T14:41:56Z

Tomw at 14:24, 2 July 2004

2004-07-02T14:24:35Z

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If you want to give your plugin the ability to uninstall itself then you must implement this function.</p>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="1" width="90%" align="Center">
<caption align="bottom">Table 6. Uninstall function</caption>
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<th valign="top">Function</th>
<th valign="top">Description of Function</th>
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<td valign="top" class="codeheader">plugin_uninstall_<plugin
name></td>
<td valign="top" class="code">This function does not take any parameters. The plugin should try and uninstall itself, especially removing all its tables and data structures from the database.<br>
The function should return <code>true</code> if the uninstall succeeded and <code>false</code> if it failed.</td>
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-as of Geeklog 1.4.2 you can also use the internal plugin-uninstall function, "Autouninstall".
+As of Geeklog 1.5.0 you can also use the internal plugin-uninstall function, "Autouninstall".
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       name&gt;</td>
              <td valign="top" class="code">This function does not take any parameters. The plugin has to return an array listing all the elemts that should be uninstalled. This array needs to have a specific format. Here is a sample for the links plugin:<br>
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 function plugin_autouninstall_links ()
+{
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      return $out;
+}
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 If you have other things to remove then tables, groups, features, blocks and default values, please remove them before returning the array. If the removal fails, please return "false" instead of the array.
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