WPlize – A Class For Options In WordPress

So what is WPlize and what is it for?

WPlize is a class, which access the options table of WordPress and makes it easier to create, edit, get and delete preferences of a Plugin or theme in the options table of WordPress. Using this class improves the performances and create a clean code in Plugins and themes. Only one entry will be created for each Plugin or theme, an array creates and manages the entries.

Many Plugins creating quite a lot data, for example the popular contact Plugin cforms creates 60 entries, which worsen the performance.
But that’s not necessary, WordPress supports the use of arrays. Also single entries having a better performance by using an internal caching, even though it’s not as good as using an array for many entries instead many entries in the database.

I use this solution for quite a long time already and created for this new functions in my Plugins. I didn’t implement this in older Plugins yet, but if I have time I will make the changes in older Plugins too.

In collaboration with Sergej Müller (known for his Plugin wpSEO), after I recommend this variant, Sergej created an own class, which makes it even easier with less code to integrate.

First we thought to create a Plugin, which has access to other Plugins. But since we didn’t think it is worth it because of lack of popularity, we just thought to offer the class here.

This class enables a simplyfied and better performed access for Plugin and theme authors. Functions like add_option, delete_option, get_option and update_option are also getting used in the functions of this class.

Which possibilities has the class to offer and how can you implement them?

Save the file in a sub folder of your theme or Plugin and integrate via PHP.

if ( !class_exists('WPlize') ) {
	require_once('inc/WPlize.php');
}

The following Syntax explains more in detail.
The download file includes also a readme-file with some examples.

• Initializing Multi-Option

  $WPlize = new WPlize(
                       'my_plugin',
                       array(
                            'my_key'   => 'my_value',
                            'your_key' => 'your_value'
                            )
                      );

• Updating option [Variant 1]

  $WPlize->update_option('my_key', 'simple_value');

• Updating option [Variant 2]

  $WPlize->update_option(
                         array(
                               'my_key'   => 'my_value',
                               'your_key' => 'simple_value'
                              )
                        );

• Get option

  $WPlize->get_option('your_key');

• Delete Multi-Option

  $WPlize->delete_option();

Download:

Please read the updatenotice an the download-site.
Download as zip-file, incl. readme: class_WPlize.zip – 3 kByte