Enable/Disable plugins
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-In theory, it's a relation 1:N between an extension point and the extensions for this extension point.
-This works well, except for when you develop multiple plugins for this extension point as different options for your clients to decide on which one to use.
-In this situation you wish a possibility to disable all but one extension.
+In theory, it's a relation **1:N** between an extension point and the extensions for this extension point.
+This works well, except for when you develop multiple plugins for this extension point as different options for your clients to decide on which one to use.
+In this situation you wish a possibility to disable all but one extension.
For example I have an extension point for sending mail (EmailSender interface) with two extensions: one based on Sendgrid and another
-based on Amazon Simple Email Service. The first extension is located in Plugin1 and the second extension is located in Plugin2.
-I want to go only with one extension (1:1 relation between extension point and extensions) and to achieve this I have two options:
-1) uninstall Plugin1 or Plugin2 (remove from plugins folder pluginX.zip and pluginX folder)
-2) disable Plugin1 or Plugin2
+based on Amazon Simple Email Service.
+The first extension is located in Plugin1 and the second extension is located in Plugin2.
+I want to go only with one extension ( **1:1** relation between extension point and extensions) and to achieve this I have two options:
+1) uninstall Plugin1 or Plugin2 (remove folder pluginX.zip and pluginX from plugins folder)
+2) disable Plugin1 or Plugin2
-For option two you must create a simple file enabled.txt or disabled.txt in your plugins folder.
+For option two you must create a simple file enabled.txt or disabled.txt in your plugins folder.
The content for enabled.txt is similar with:
########################################
########################################
welcome-plugin
-All comment lines (line that start with # character) are ignored.
+All comment lines (line that start with # character) are ignored.
If a file with enabled.txt exists than disabled.txt is ignored. See enabled.txt and disabled.txt from the demo folder.
Demo