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Reactor Team Work in EE 2.4

I missed this when posting about the release of EE 2.4, but in the changelog for the EE 2.4 release the ExpressionEngine Reactor teams’ contributions to the release of called out (with [ExpressionEngine Reactor]) so everyone can see what the developers are working on. Excellent idea and a nice surprise.

Here’s what they worked on for EE 2.4:

  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added the list of Channels to dropdown under Edit.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added third_party_path config item.]
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Changed default text formatting from XHTML to none.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Fixed a bug with autosave where the save() method would be called for third party add-ons on autosave.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added core_template_hook that lets you change the template to be loaded based on the uri_string.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added template_post_parse hook that lets you modify templates after parsing.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added template_fetch_template hook that lets you see what template is being loaded.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added option to suppress errors thrown by loading language files.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Added all plugins to default text formatting list when creating a new field.
  • [ExpressionEngine Reactor] Abstracted field edit/create logic to the Channel Fields API.

A good description of the team and the idea behind the reactor is available here in this blog post by Leslie Camacho.

Nice work, everyone!

Posted on Jan 29, 2012 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: EE Reactor, ExpressionEngine 2

Rob B — 14:29 on 02.03.2012

Reactor is a exciting idea. On the subject of EE 2.4, maybe EEI could produce a blog entry soon about add-ons that they are aware of that have been updated or are being updated for 2.4. I notice that Low Variables, the P&T field add-ons, Solspace User, etc all have bumped up versions of their add-ons for EE 2.4. It would probably make upgrading EE to the new version a little less worrisome.