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Your Weekly Devot:ee - September 8, 2011

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  • dashEE (for EE2) by Chris Monnat
    dashEE is fully customizable ExpressionEngine control panel dashboard alternative.
  • CartThrob Tax Table ($, for EE2) by anjstudio
    An ExpressionEngine 2 module for CartThrob that allows you to upload, manage and organize tax rates in an easy format. You’re also able to filter by State and Import CSV.
  • URL Viewer ($, for EE2) by anjstudio
    An ExpressionEngine 2 module that lets you display templates as well as external URLs in an iFrame.
  • Segment Category Info (for EE2) by Trevor Davis
    Return category info by passing in the category_url_title and channel_short_name.
  • Is Ajax? (for EE2) by Trevor Davis
    Returns true or false depending if it’s an AJAX request.
  • Simply Order for ExpressionEngine (for EE2) by Mimo
    Simply Order is a module for ExpressionEngine 2 that will easily allow users to customize entry order.
  • Entry Age (for EE2) by Chris Rasmussen
    Returns a configurable warning message if the entry being viewed is older than a certain age.
  • Numeral to Roman (for EE2) by GDmac
    Converts numbers to roman numerals.
  • Chosen Selects (for EE2) by John D. Wells
    An ExpressionEngine fieldtype: Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.
  • ED Related (for EE1) by Erskine Design
    ED Related V2 EE Module for getting bi-directional related entries, and/or committing blocks of code if certain content doesn’t exist.
  • ED Pagination Links (for EE2) by Erskine Design
    More friendly pagination for ExpressionEngine 2.
  • Image Editor (for EE2) by Benjamin David
    The Image Editor add-on for ExpressionEngine gives you quick access to great image control : blur, brightness, saturation, text, and lets you edit, save and reopen construction files you’ve been working on. It adds 4 tools to the File Manager and allow users to get more control on their images.
  • AB Entry IDs (for EE2) by Bjorn Borresen
    Run SQL and get the results returned as a |-separated list of entry_ids which you can use as a parameter in another tag (ie. the {exp:channel:entries} tag).

Posted on Sep 08, 2011 by Ryan Masuga

Filed Under: Weekly Devot:ee

GDmac15:04 on 09.08.2011

Ha, that num2roman was just a quick mashup related to this blog entry by Andy at moogaloo http://blog.moogaloo.com/how-to-make-roman-numeral-date-snippet

Just to show that it might be handy to whip up a plugin for something that might be more easy to do in PHP than with a tonne of EE conditionals.

(ps. While searching for that blog post just now, i found out Made by Hippo also has such a roman numeral plugin grin