Opened 6 years ago
#41783 new enhancement
allow loading wp-config.php (values) without DB bootstrap
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| Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.8.1 |
| Component: | Bootstrap/Load | Keywords: | |
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Description
Directly related issue: wp-cli plugin download command
wp-config.php is a fundamental and unique source of information about the WP instance. It contains information about database, but some others about languages/paths/...
In some case we may want to provide preprovisionned WP instance but also about the to-be-instanciated installation: filesystem/plugin/themes/... to be provided in the filesystem *before* WP got installed).
This may be the case when a team share a common WP filesystem image / Docker image / ...
External tool (ex wp-cli) may benefit from loading not only the WP-core helpers (like, eg, plugins_api()), but also to know about some constants inside wp-config.php although DB is not yet available.
An issue is that currently, loading wp-config.php forcefully attempt a DB connexion. This happens via the unconditional call to wp_set_wpdb_vars() inside wp-settings.php
We rather should provide a mechanism to optionally disable such a behaviour.
There already exist a SHORTINIT define. Could we introduce another one that may allow to load wp-config.php in a database-less environment?
Indirectly related: WP_* configuration constants from the environment