README

This is the repository of Pico's official PicoDeprecated plugin.

Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS. See http://picocms.org/ for more info.

PicoDeprecated's purpose is to maintain backward compatibility to older versions of Pico, by re-introducing characteristics that were removed from Pico's core. It for example triggers old events (like the before_render event used before Pico 1.0) and reads config files that were written in PHP (config/config.php, used before Pico 2.0).

Please refer to picocms/Pico to get info about how to contribute or getting help.

Install

You usually don't have to install this plugin manually, it's shipped together with Pico's pre-built release packages and a default dependency of picocms/pico-composer.

If you're using plugins and themes that are compatible with Pico's latest API version only, you can safely remove PicoDeprecated from your Pico installation or disable the plugin (please refer to the "Usage" section below). However, if you're not sure about this, simply leave it as it is - it won't hurt... 😉

If you use a composer-based installation of Pico and want to either remove or install PicoDeprecated, simply open a shell on your server and navigate to Pico's install directory (e.g. /var/www/html). Run composer remove picocms/pico-deprecated to remove PicoDeprecated, or run composer require picocms/pico-deprecated (via Packagist.org) to install PicoDeprecated.

If you rather use one of Pico's pre-built release packages, it is best to disable PicoDeprecated and not to actually remove it. The reason for this is, that PicoDeprecated is part of Pico's pre-built release packages, thus it will be automatically re-installed when updating Pico. However, if you really want to remove PicoDeprecated, simply delete the plugins/PicoDeprecated directory in Pico's install directory (e.g. /var/www/html). If you want to install PicoDeprecated, you must first create a empty plugins/PicoDeprecated directory on your server, download the version of PicoDeprecated matching the version of your Pico installation and upload all containing files (esp. PicoDeprecated.php and the lib/, plugins/ and vendor/ directories) into said plugins/PicoDeprecated directory (resulting in plugins/PicoDeprecated/PicoDeprecated.php).

The versioning of PicoDeprecated strictly follows the version of Pico's core. You must not use a version of PicoDeprecated that doesn't match the version of Pico's core (e.g. PicoDeprecated 2.0.1 is not compatible with Pico 2.0.0). If you're using a composer-based installation of Pico, simply use a version constaint like ^2.0 - PicoDeprecated ensures that its version matches Pico's version. Even if you're using one of Pico's pre-built release packages, you don't have to take care of anything - a matching version of PicoDeprecated is part of Pico's pre-built release packages anyway.

Usage

You can explicitly disable PicoDeprecated by adding PicoDeprecated.enabled: false to your config/config.yml. If you want to re-enable PicoDeprecated, simply remove this line from your config/config.yml. PicoDeprecated itself has no configuration options, it enables and disables all of its features depending on whether there are plugins and/or themes requiring said characteristics.

PicoDeprecated's functionality is split into various so-called "compatibility plugins". There are compatibility plugins for every old API version (Pico 0.9 and earlier were using API version 0, Pico 1.0 was using API version 1 and Pico 2.0 was using API version 2; the current API version is version 3, used by Pico 2.1), one for plugins and another one for themes. Their purpose is to re-introduce characteristics plugins and themes using said API version might rely on. For example, plugin API compatibility plugins are responsible for simulating old Pico core events (like the before_render event used by Pico 0.9 and earlier). Theme API compatibility plugins will e.g. register old Twig variables (like the is_front_page Twig variable used by Pico 1.0). If you install a plugin using API version 2, the corresponding PicoPluginApi2CompatPlugin will be loaded. All plugin API compatibility plugins also depend on their theme counterpart, thus PicoThemeApi2CompatPlugin will be loaded, too. Furthermore all compatibility plugins depend on their respective API successors.

The plugin exposes a simple API to allow other plugins to load their own compatibility plugins. As a plugin developer you may use the PicoDeprecated::loadCompatPlugin(PicoCompatPluginInterface $compatPlugin) method to load a custom compatibility plugin. Use PicoDeprecated::getCompatPlugins() to return a list of all loaded compatibility plugins. You can furthermore use the PicoDeprecated::getPlugins(int $apiVersion) method to return a list of all loaded Pico plugins using a particular API version. If you want to trigger a custom event on plugins using a particular API version only, use PicoDeprecated::triggerEvent(int $apiVersion, string $eventName, array $parameters = []). PicoDeprecated furthermore triggers the custom onPicoDeprecated(PicoDeprecated $picoDeprecated) event.

Getting Help

Please refer to the "Getting Help" section of our main repository.

Contributing

Please refer to the "Contributing" section of our main repository.

By contributing to Pico, you accept and agree to the Developer Certificate of Origin for your present and future contributions submitted to Pico. Please refer to the "Developer Certificate of Origin" section in the CONTRIBUTING.md of our main repository.