Recently we rolled out a set of Developer Guidelines, including a promise of news regarding changes to the submission process to ensure higher quality add-ons and a faster turnaround on reviewing your submissions.  Today is part one of those changes.

We had already linked to the guidelines and made mention on the submission form that the add-on needed to meet those requirements, but we also understand the excitement of a new add-on and submitting something for the community.  It tends to make one not read a paragraph or two above the submission form, and one either forgets about the guidelines altogether, or doesn’t realize that they are not optional.  Naughty!

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Is this what god was referring to?

No, that’s actually something altogether different, though it does reinforce the thought of the amount of time it takes to review someone else’s code.

PXLated - 21 September 2007 09:33 AM

Is this what god was referring to?

It is against the ExpressionEngine Community forums usage policy to feed Paul’s ego in such a unhealthy manner.

feed Paul’s ego in such a unhealthy manner

Shame on me…I should have known better ;-)

I thought Paul was dead… he was killed on Abbey Road, right?  As such, he may well be up there….  though I draw the line if someone asks for a goat sacrifice. 

Anyway, minor question about the dev guidelines.  It says to avoid heredoc syntax; I assume that doesn’t apply to a plugin documentation function?  I.E. the function that outputs the info on the plugin page.

Vanceone - 21 September 2007 12:43 PM

Anyway, minor question about the dev guidelines.  It says to avoid heredoc syntax; I assume that doesn’t apply to a plugin documentation function?  I.E. the function that outputs the info on the plugin page.

Because of some PHP bugs in how heredoc strings are handled in various point releases, I’d recommend avoiding unless unavoidable.  That makes sense, right?  In the case of the usage() method of a plugin, you can use output buffering instead.  On PHP versions where the bug is not present, it’s essentially a wash on memory and speed to use output buffering vs. heredoc.  Only after thousands of iterations does a difference become measurable, and even then only marginally so.

Hmm…I pictured Paul as more of the nun’s habit-wearing, knuckle-smacking type.