New Extension: ER Developer Toolbar

Not sure if you’d noticed but the version number on the install still says 0.5.0 but the zip says 0.5.1

Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant.

Just installed on the current dev site and it’s great. made a couple of adjustments to the CSS and fits exactly how I want it.

Thanks for the great extension - off to devot-ee to favorite and rate it 5 stars.

@wecreateyou

Thanks for the notice. That will be taken care of tomorrow

@Sean

Thanks a lot. I think you’ll be thrilled with the new release of the 1.0 update coming tomorrow. Stay tuned for details! 😊

Version 1.0 is out of the gate now. Go check it out!

This looks really cool.

Your docs page is not showing the code to put in the pages, or to add to the embedded templates(the route I want to go) then I see mention of a global variable {er_developer_toolbar} which is not mentioned at all in the docs.

Thanks,

Jim

Your docs page is not showing the code to put in the pages, or to add to the embedded templates(the route I want to go) then I see mention of a global variable {er_developer_toolbar} which is not mentioned at all in the docs.

Thanks Jim. Since I have the extension installed it was “parsing” the tag thus removing it. I converted the curly brackets to HTML entities so it’s showing up in the docs now. Thanks for pointing it out! 😊

Eric, Still not seeing it: http://erikreagan.com/projects/docs/er-developer-toolbar/ JIm

p.s. found it on your GIT site.

Jim

Thanks for following up. I failed to check it for non-logged users. It’s showing up on my docs now. Thanks!

Thanks, all there for me now.

On another note, the link to the project on your homepage is broke.

Ciao,

Jim

On another note, the link to the project on your homepage is broke.

Actually it’s not, it’s just poor usability design on my part. The image is what clicks over to the page, not the text. I’m working on a better solution for that 😊 Thanks though

I updated the extension this week to include a fly-out menu for the modules that you have installed which also have a control panel backend of their own. You can find the download on my website and upgrading is a simple as replacing the files.

Thanks!

I am having a small problem due to my customization of the control panel path as outlined here:

http://eeinsider.com/tips/view/installing-ee-1.x-above-webroot/

http://expressionengine.com/docs/installation/masked_cp_access.html

I see you are using the CP_URL variable. Is there a solution to this?

I suppose I could do a custom mod-rewrite to handle this, but built in is always better.

Erik,

Great work, this looks like it might be indispensable. I have a usability suggestion:

To my taste it would be easier if the system status and debug status showed their current status directly in the toolbar rather than being combined in a drop down menu. Similarly template debugging and sql queries could show their current status in the toolbar thus saving mouse clicks.

Thanks for you comments eduqate!

To my taste it would be easier if the system status and debug status showed their current status directly in the toolbar rather than being combined in a drop down menu.

I thought about doing something similar with a few “features” actually. I ran into an issue, however, when the toolbar was positioned on either the left or right side because text wouldn’t fit in the small width. I chose to keep the consistent UI with the fly-out boxes on all toolbars.

On a similar note, I want the toolbar to fit on most browser widths and with text strung out it would require a larger width quite quickly.

Similarly template debugging and sql queries could show their current status in the toolbar thus saving mouse clicks.

By mouse clicks are you referring to more “motions”? The only click required is if you want to change the setting which would be required either way.