how to store custom data to be passed between 2 separate plugins

Question

I need to pass data between two plugins. Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Very good question.

I would try to save the data (if it is just a small text or so) using qa_opt("data_storage_name") by plugin n°1.

And then read the data from plugin n°2.

Kai

 

Note: The executions of the plugins is determined by the folder names (in q2a 1.6.3-), as far as I know. So plugin 1 should appear alphabetically before plugin 2.

Comments

Thanks for your answer but I should probably have been a bit more specific. The data will be specific to each user. I've written a custom category nav plugin and a custom search plugin. It would be nice if I could pass the 'last category' selected in the nav plugin to the search plugin and only return results in that category. I may have to store the userid and their last category selected in a custom table if theres no other way.

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Correct, custom table is the way to go.