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Devot:ee’s Adventures In Updating an EE Plugin

We missed this last week, but Devot:ee has a great article on updating plugins from 1.6.8 to 2.0. The article covers plug-ins as well as some entry level development instruction.

The biggest functional difference between 1.6.8 and 2.0 as far as plugins are concerned is the switch from global variables and methods to the super object.  Most of your calls will still work the same, but they’ll be formatted differently and interact with ExpressionEngine in a new way.  These changes first show up in the plugin constructor function, which is the first function in the plugin class.

The post is lengthy, well-written and full of great beginner information.

Posted on Jan 27, 2010 by Kenny Meyers

Filed Under: Development Tools, EE Add-ons, EE Plugins