GitHub Sync Lite

One source, one job: bring the core from a repository onto this installation, together with the plugin folders you selected.

Folder	githubSyncLite
Needs installing	No — copying the folder in is enough
Permission	Main admin only
Stores	Plugin preferences, no database table

It is called Lite because it does less, not because it only works with Lite. The source can be a Lite fork or an upstream e107 repository — the layout settings say which.

Screens

Core Sync is the everyday screen: a summary of the source, the plugin list as checkboxes, and the buttons.

Source is where you set the repository once — organization, repository, branch, its layout, and a token if it is private.

Diagnostics is read-only and touches nothing. It exists to answer the question "why did the download fail", which is otherwise very hard to answer from a failed sync alone.

Diagnostics

Four checks plus one full-weight test:

Check	Answers
Environment	Is a CA bundle installed at all (curl.cainfo / openssl.cafile)
DNS and SSRF guard	Does e107's own isUrlSafe() accept the GitHub host, or does it refuse it
Connection	Is this a DNS failure, a missing CA bundle, or a block inside the handler
Heavy test	Repeats the sync's real ZIP download, end to end

The distinction the Connection check draws is the useful one: cURL error 6 is DNS, cURL error 60 is certificates, and a refusal without a cURL error at all is the guard. See Troubleshooting.

The plugin selection

The Core Sync screen lists the repository's plugin folders as checkboxes. Ticked folders are extracted from the same archive the core comes from — no second download.

Press Refresh plugin list to read the list from GitHub. That is one API call, done only when you ask for it; every other page load reads the stored copy. Your saved selection survives a refresh, and folders that have disappeared from the repository are dropped and reported.

The base plugins are always included and the check-all and clear-all buttons skip them.

Ticks you have not saved are lost when you refresh the list, so save first.

The stored list is the whitelist: a folder name can only be selected if it is in the list, whatever the browser sends.