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ExpressionEngine 2.0 will be powered by CodeIgniter

• CI gains abstracted querying
• New CI libs like the DBForge built to support EE 2.0
• EE Session library more powerful
• EE Form gen and HTML gen

• jQuery built into EE now

• Basically, if EE needs something, CI gets new feature

• Performance and simplicity still top priority

Changes coming in EE 2.0

• new CP theme designed from scratch
• CP uses MVC pattern (CP has always been decoupled from EE’s frontend stuff)
• CP has nice DHTML stuff driven by jquery - sortable tables, dynamic search results/filtering, ajax paging (retains sorting settings), pretty animations
• New CP is very task-oriented: Create, Modify, View are primary sections, all available from opening
• Top Bar: Content, Design, Add-Ons, Members, Admin, Tools
• Nice little footer tabs called Accessories. Default are Learning EE stuff, EE News and site stats
  • Accessories can be added much like modules or plugins
  • Accessory creation doesn’t require PHP knowledge (but it helps to do more awesome stuff)
• Admin area no longer has Utilities
  • Content Admin and System Admin
• Members have own section
• Edit form shows nice dhtml tabs;
  • can create custom tabs from edit form
  • can add/edit custom fields from edit form
  • fields are resortable by dragging
  • full-page write mode for any field