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Fix cache-busting entirely: __DIR__ resolves wrong under Unraid's eval()
podman_asset_version() has never actually cache-busted anything, all
session — found live: it kept returning '0' for every asset regardless
of a hard browser reload OR a full php-fpm restart (both ruled out
explicitly before looking further), which meant the mechanism itself was
broken, not caching around it.

Root cause: Unraid's PageBuilder runs every .page file's PHP through
eval() (webGui/include/DefaultPageLayout/evalContent.php literally does
`eval($evalContent)`), and __DIR__/__FILE__ inside eval()'d code resolve
to the eval() CALL SITE's own directory, not to Podman.page's real
location — a standard PHP gotcha. So `__DIR__ . $relPath` was always
pointing at a nonexistent path under webGui/include/DefaultPageLayout/,
is_file() always failed, and the function always fell back to '0'.

Every "do a hard refresh" instruction given throughout this session
worked only because Ctrl+Shift+R bypasses the browser's cache directly —
completely unrelated to this (non-functional) query-string mechanism.
Likely also the real explanation for containers getting stopped
unexpectedly during live testing just now: a stale, mismatched cached
JS/HTML combination made a "Start Podman" click actually run as a full
restart cycle (confirmed via plugin.log: a complete, uninterrupted
stop-then-start at that exact timestamp) — restarted manually afterward.

Fixed by hardcoding /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/podman instead of __DIR__ —
consistent with the rest of the codebase already assuming this exact
install path elsewhere (include/Config.php, plugin/podman.plg's event
hook paths).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 23:17:08 +00:00
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webui/

Dynamix-style WebUI pages, following Unraid's plugin GUI convention of /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/<name>/. webui/plugins/podman/ is staged to that path by the unraid-podman scaffolding package (see packages/unraid-podman/unraid-podman.SlackBuild), which podman.plg installs alongside the other ten packages.

Status: implemented, covering all ten sections from docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, section 18: Dashboard, Containers, Pods, Images, Volumes, Networks, Logs, Terminal, Compose, Settings. Not yet exercised against a real Unraid/Podman install — see docs/ROADMAP.md for what "implemented" does and doesn't cover yet.

webui/mockups/prototype.html is the static, non-PHP clickable mockup this implementation was built against — kept as the visual reference; it is not staged into the package.

Structure

webui/
├── mockups/
│   └── prototype.html         # static approved mockup, not shipped
└── plugins/
    └── podman/
        ├── Podman.page          # page shell: header, sub-nav, one container per panel
        ├── include/
        │   ├── PodmanClient.php # libpod REST API client (talks to podman.sock only)
        │   ├── Config.php       # reads podman.cfg (mirrors podman-common.sh)
        │   ├── bootstrap.php    # shared include + error handling for ajax/*.php
        │   └── helpers.php      # formatting + JSON-response helpers
        ├── ajax/                 # one endpoint per resource, each require()s bootstrap.php
        │   ├── containers.php    # list/start/stop/restart/remove/logs
        │   ├── pods.php
        │   ├── images.php
        │   ├── volumes.php
        │   ├── networks.php
        │   ├── exec.php          # Terminal — see its header comment for API scope
        │   ├── compose.php       # Compose — the one deliberate CLI exception, see header
        │   ├── settings.php      # plugin's own config, not a libpod resource
        │   └── system.php        # Dashboard aggregation
        ├── javascript/
        │   ├── app.js             # shared AJAX helper + sub-tab router
        │   └── <panel>.js         # one module per panel, registers with app.js
        ├── styles/podman.css      # design tokens ported 1:1 from the mockup
        ├── event/                  # official Unraid array-event hooks (see plugin/event/)
        └── images/                  # plugin icon assets

Design constraints (see ARCHITECTURE.md for full rationale)

  • Every panel talks to podman system service over its Unix socket via PodmanClient — no exec()/shell_exec() of the podman binary anywhere in include/ or in the Containers/Pods/Images/Volumes/Networks/ Logs endpoints.
  • Two documented, deliberate exceptions, not oversights:
    • ajax/exec.php (Terminal) uses the real exec REST API, but as one-command-in/output-out rather than a true interactive PTY — libpod's interactive exec needs a persistent hijacked connection that doesn't fit PHP-FPM's request lifecycle. See that file's header comment.
    • ajax/compose.php (Compose) shells out to the podman compose CLI via proc_open() with an argv array (never a shell string) — because no REST endpoint for Compose exists in libpod at all. See that file's header comment.
  • The API socket is root-equivalent; no unauthenticated network exposure beyond what Unraid's own WebUI auth already provides — see .github/SECURITY.md.
  • Dark/light mode via CSS custom properties (prefers-color-scheme + [data-theme] override), matching Unraid's own theme mechanism — no separate theme toggle inside the plugin page.