Plugin Automatic Update via FTP - SLL option will not deactivate once activated

[carltonbale]

In WordPress 2.5.0 and 2.5.1, plugin automatic update was working properly via FTP. I then decided to try the FTP SSL option and received the error message

"Error: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct."

So apparently my server does not support FTP over SSL. So I disabled the SSL option by setting "Use SSL" to "No". However, I continued to receive the same connection error message as above. The message would appear no matter what was entered into the FTP configuration page.

I finally added the following line to my wp-config.php file:

define('FTP_SSL', false);

This caused the SSL setting within the plugin FTP updater to be overwritten with the correct value. FTP updates of plugins began to again function properly after making this change.

This is due to a rather anoying thing with PHP:

$string = "0";
var_dump( empty($string) ); = true
}}
A string with only a 0 is classified as an empty string.

Attached patch sets it based on if the item was post'd along or not.

(In [7949]) Fix FTP SSL setting. Props DD32. fixes #6986 for trunk

(In [7950]) Fix FTP SSL setting. Props DD32. fixes #6986 for 2.5

Milestone 2.5.2 deleted