Elefant 2.2.5 released

[jbroadway]

Elefant 2.2.5 has been released with a number of improvements and one bug fix.

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New environment variables

You can now set your site name, domain name, transactional email address, a default password for automating new installs (used by the ./elefant install command), and your job queue's Beanstalkd connection info from environment variables. In all, these are the new variables introduced in 2.2.5:

• ELEFANT_SITE_NAME
• ELEFANT_DOMAIN
• ELEFANT_EMAIL_FROM
• ELEFANT_DEFAULT_PASS
• JOBQUEUE_BACKEND
• JOBQUEUE_HOST
• JOBQUEUE_PORT

This release also introduces Envconf, which makes it easy to integrate custom environment variables into your custom Elefant apps. Envconf is a wrapper around Appconf that first checks for a matching environment variable based on the app, section, and setting names, for example:

Envconf::myapp ('S3', 'access_token');

Will map to the following environment variable:

MYAPP_S3_ACCESS_TOKEN

Click here for more information on using environment variables with Elefant.

Other improvements

• Added Model::prefetch_field($id_list, $fieldname) to reduce database calls on repeat uses of Model::field()
• Added exception handling to Redis cache connection failures
• Added example setup of custom styles for blocks, introduced in 2.2.3, in the default theme under layouts/minimal/blocks.css

Bug fix

• Fixed forms not submitting when skip_if_empty is specified but the field isn't found in the HTML of the form

Click here for a full list of changes.