Hello,

I was trying to implement some ideas of mine related to the export plugin, and I

have a small question.

I saw that export.php uses a function called PMA_getPlugins (from 

libraries/plugin_interface.lib.php) to get the export list with all of the plugins. 

That function includes all the files in the libraries/export folder, which in turn 

define the options and functions for each of the plugins. After the user chooses a 

format and submits, one of the exports is selected and used.

I was wondering if there is any reason for using that $plugin_list ( in this case 

$export_list ) or if that variable is actually needed somewhere else except the 

export.php and libraries/display_export.lib.php, where it displays the list of 

export plugins. Because if not, I was thinking that the export list could be 

replaced with a single element which will be an instance of one of the export 

classes. 

This way, all the other export plugins don't need to be included, and only one 

export class will be instantiated and its output functions will be used. I tested 

this scenario and it works, but I don't know if I may cause something else to 

malfunction in some part. Would you have any objections for such a replacement?

Thanks,

Alex