Connections 9.11: Maintenance Update

This update focuses primarily on consolidating and organizing the many small utility functions and methods utilized throughout the plugin and its addons.

  • NEW: Introduce _string::toKebabCase().
  • NEW: Introduce the Connections_Directory/Content_Block/Entry/Categories/Attributes filter.
  • DEV: Move the color utility class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: Move the dateutility class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: The _date class should be final.
  • DEV: Move the string utility class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: Move the formatting utility class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: cnSanitize::currency() should be static.
  • DEV: Remove unnecessary break statement.
  • DEV: Add _deprecated_file() calls to a couple of deprecated files.
  • DEV: Add _deprecated_function() to a couple of deprecated methods.
  • DEV: phpDoc updates.
  • DEV: Move the siteshot utility class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: Remove unused cnFunction::var_dump_error_log() method.
  • DEV: Move the utility functions class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: Move the URL utility class to its own namespaced file.
  • DEV: Add _deprecated_function() to the cnValidate::attributesArray() method.
  • DEV: Move the validate utility class to its own file.
  • DEV: Deprecate methods in the cnUtility class nad move code to the _ class to consolidate utility methods under a shortcode classname.
  • DEV: Moved several methods to be in the proper utility class and deprecated the existing methods.
  • DEV: Deprecate and pair on unused methods in cnValidate.