Low Variables
Lodewijk Schutte has released his first commercial add-on, Low Variables. It does the following:
This ExpressionEngine add-on gives you and your users a better way of managing site wide variables. Currently, you can use User Defined Global Variables, which are parsed at the very end of EE’s Parse Order and can only be edited though the Templates tab. Alternatively, you can use Path.php Global Variables which are parsed much earlier, but do not provide an interface for your users. Finally, you can use Fresh Variables, which are also parsed early, but can be inappropriate for your users as it also gives them the power to break your templates.
Congratulations to Low on his first release, which you can read more about on his excellent blog post about it. It is currently only available for 1.6.8.
Posted on Dec 17, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
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Rob Butz — 08:12 on 12.30.2009
I’ve already installed this on three EE sites. After the second install, I had some suggestions for workflow improvements, and Low was super nice about implementing them. It’s like Fresh Variables on steroids, and really a great module if you need to give your clients anything like a “control panel” for sitewide settings, snippets of text, etc.