Components Extended [v0.9.3]

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Introduction
Extended functionality for GS Components: better UI with sort & search, CodeMirror support, doubleclick code snippet copy, individual component save without page reload. Components Extended saves your components as <slug>.xml files in data/components with AJAX, one component at a time (no page reload!). It replaces the components tab with a custom tab, and will automatically import existing components from components.xml on activation. Available in EN, FR, NL. Download it from Extend.

Components Extension adds one PHP function for components, get_ext_component($slug, $params = array()); where $params is an array of named keys (or an object).

Eg if you had the following:

PHP Code:

<?php get_ext_component($slug, array(
    'greet' => 'Hello',
    'name'  => 'world'
)); ?>

In your extended component you could do:

PHP Code:

<?php echo $params->greet . ' ' . $params->name . '!'; ?>

And it would output: 'Hello world!'.

Features

• Single-file components saved in data/components, modify 1 component at a time, smaller request payload.
  
• Cleaner UI
  
• Rename the component title independently from its slug.
  
• Keeps track of the created date, modified date, and last editor.
  
• Replaces the component tag cloud with an autofill search + sort (by [reverse] alphabetical)
  
• One extra PHP function: <?php get_ext_component($slug, $params = array()); ?>
  
• Bonus: doubleclick the get_component snippet for automatic copy to clipboard
  

Notes

Be sure to set the GSTIMEZONE constant to your timezone if you wish to have meaningful timestamps for created & modified dates.
NB: to other plugin developers; the standard GS hooks component-save and component-extras also work with this plugin.


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