I wrote a Joomla plugin which will eventually load a library.

The path to library is a plugin parameter, as such when the path is incorrect, a message pops up in the backend, together with a link to edit the plugin parameters:

/administrator/index.php?option=com_plugins&view=plugin&client=site&task=edit&cid[]=36

See the 36 at the end? That's my plugin's id in the database (table jos_plugins).

My issue is that this id changes on installation, ie, on different installs, it would be something else. So I need to find this id programmatically.

The problem is that I couldn't find this id from the plugin object itself (as to why not, that would be joomla's arguably short-sighted design decision).

So unless you know about some neat trick, (I've checked and double checked JPlugin and JPluginHelper classes), I'll be using the DB.

Edit; Some useful links:

• http://docs.joomla.org/Plugin_Developer_Overview
• http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/Plugin/JPlugin.html
• http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/Plugin/JPluginHelper.html
• http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2227737

Guess I'll be using the wisdom from that last link...