textpattern-curated-plugins-list

A curated list of Textpattern CMS plugins listed in the Textpattern plugins website.

JSON structure

Each plugin has a JSON-formatted 'library card', located within the library-of-plugins directory of this repository.

The Textpattern plugins website digests the information for each card to provide the relevant details of the plugin. Each card expects a set of required entries plus any optional entries as appropriate. It is recommended that you complete as many fields as possible in the JSON file, as this helps provide the most information to users within the Textpattern plugins site and assists with ongoing maintenance.

Example structure

{
  "name": "abc_example",
  "repositories": [
    {
      "repoType": "homepage",
      "repoUrl": "https://example.com/abc_example.html"
    },
    {
      "repoType": "github",
      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example"
    },
    {
      "repoType": "bitbucket",
      "repoUrl": "https://bitbucket.org/exampleuser/abc_example"
    },
    {
      "repoType": "gitlab",
      "repoUrl": "https://gitlab.com/exampleuser/abc_example"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "abc_extra_example": ">=2.0.0"
  },
  "beta": {
    "version": "3.7.1-beta.3",
    "datePublished": "2020-06-26",
    "downloadUrlPhp": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/archive/3.7.1-beta.3.zip",
    "phpHasManifest": 1
  },
  "stable": {
    "version": "3.7.0",
    "datePublished": "2020-02-14",
    "downloadUrlTxt": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/releases/download/3.7.0/abc_example_v3.7.0.txt",
    "downloadUrlPhp": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/archive/3.7.0.zip",
    "phpHasManifest": 1
  },
  "legacy": [
    {
      "4.6": {
        "version": "v2.5.3",
        "datePublished": "2018-10-18",
        "downloadUrlTxt": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/archive/v2.5.3.txt",
        "downloadUrlPhp": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/archive/v2.5.3.tar.gz",
        "phpHasManifest": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "4.5": {
        "version": "v1.4.0-beta.4",
        "downloadUrlTxt": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/archive/v1.4.0-beta.4_zip.txt"
      }
    }
  ]
}

A JSON template is provided as a useful starting point.

Required entries

• name:
  The name of the plugin, including the plugin author prefix.
• stable and/or beta:
  At least one of either stable and/or beta nodes need to be stated. If the plugin has no official stable release, then beta release will take precedence.
• version:
  stable, beta and legacy nodes each require a version entry in semver format (e.g. 1.3.8).
• downloadUrlTxt and/or downloadUrlPhp:
  stable, beta and legacy nodes each require at least one of either downloadUrlTxt and/or downloadUrlPhp nodes to be stated. downloadUrlTxt refers to the download URL of the TXT-encoded version of the plugin, downloadUrlPhp refers to the download URL of the PHP version of the plugin.
• phpHasManifest:
  stable, beta and legacy nodes each require a phpHasManifest entry if downloadUrlPhp nodes are stated. Boolean values (1 if the manifest.json file exists, otherwise 0). If a phpHasManifest entry is missing, it is assumed the manifest.json file does not exist for that release. When only downloadUrlTxt is stated, the phpHasManifest entry is not required (and is ignored, if present). For more information on plugin manifest files, see below.

Example minimum structure

This is the minimum that is required in each JSON file. Note that, as described above, stable or beta could be stated on line 3. phpHasManifest is required when a downloadUrlPhp entry is provided (not required if only a downloadUrlTxt is provided):

{
  "name": "abc_example",
  "stable": {
    "version": "3.7.0",
    "downloadUrlPhp": "https://github.com/exampleuser/abc_example/archive/3.7.0.zip",
    "phpHasManifest": 1
  }
}

Optional (but recommended) entries

• repositories:
  One or more code repositories where the the project is maintained. For each entry, a repoType and repoUrl must be provided. For repoType expected values are either homepage (i.e. page on an author's website specifically about the plugin), github, bitbucket or gitlab.
• require:
  If this plugin requires another plugin to be installed in order to work, state the plugin and version requirements.
• datePublished:
  Release date (in ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd format) of version.
• legacy:
  One or more releases that are specifically for older versions of Textpattern. Each legacy release must be labelled with the maximum version series of Textpattern it worked with. For example 4.6.

Manifests for PHP versions of plugins

In order to allow PHP versions of a plugin to be upgraded via auto-update functionality directly within (future) Textpattern, a manifest.json file in the following format is expected to reside within the root directory of the plugin folder:

{
  "name": "abc_example",
  "description": "An example plugin description here.",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "type": 5,
  "author": "Aaron A. Aardvark",
  "author_uri": "https://example.com/",
  "order": 5,
  "flags": 2,
  "help": {"file" : ["./README.textile"]},
  "code": {"file" : ["./abc_example.php"]},
  "textpack": {"file" : ["./textpack.txp"]},
  "data": {"file" : ["./data.txp"]}
}

Plugins that do not follow the above format, and/or that do not have an alternative TXT file available, will be excluded from auto-update functionality.

Linting

You can run a linter over the JSON files to check validity as follows (requires Node.js):

$ cd textpattern-curated-plugins-list
$ npm install
$ npm run jsonlint

License

Licensed under MIT license.