Well, it would be great to be able to "select" the modules to be installed from a list, or url list, and get them installed. The system could use curl to get the files and put them on the plugin directory.

It should be not so hard for the dev people!

I suggest we don't stay behind in the feature catalog. Joomla has this feature.

I intend my suggestion to be taken as constructively as possible. I mean no offense to anyone.

Thank you very much for your work!

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Renich’s picture

Renich commented
Version: 5.1 » 5.x-dev

Just wanted to update it so it can be well classified.

Frando’s picture

Frando commented

Please read up all the threads around this topic, e.g. on the dev mailing list.
To make it short: We would all like to be able to install modules via a web interface. This normally requires the module dir to be writeable, though, which will never happen because of huge security issues. Joomla has an ftp layer via which the module files are transfered to the module dir. There is an issue about this in the queue, but no actual work has happened so far.

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Frando commented
Version: 5.x-dev » 6.x-dev
dman’s picture

dman commented

There are of course, serious security issues with this, but if you like, you can use
module_installer to fetch arbitrary tgz code onto your system or maybe try this one that does CVS checkouts for you

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pasqualle
Location 🇭🇺 Budapest
commented
Version: 6.x-dev » 7.x-dev
Component: base system » update system
Status: Active » Fixed

from changelog:
* Transformed the "Update status" module into the "Update manager" which can securely install or update modules and themes via a web interface.

issues:
http://drupal.org/project/issues/search?issue_tags=Update+manager

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.