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The Importance of Semantics: Pagination

One thing that I did not cover when going through The Importance of Semantics was how Pagination works.  The various types of pagination all rely on the URL to know which entries are displayed.  We’ve had a bit of a break from the Semantics series, but why don’t we dig into how the Pagination works now?

Remember, with our Semantics series, we always start with the same code:

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The Importance of Semantics: Static Pages

Over the last few weeks, since I began writing in our blog for your reading pleasure, I have gotten a few suggestions about what to write on. These articles are to help you, so .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Before we continue, this article is going use terms from The Importance of Semantics, so you may wish to take a moment and review that article.

Last Week,  I said we had completed the default URL handling, but you see, it doesn’t actually...

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The Importance of Semantics: Dates

So, as it goes, with my move to Oregon I became geographically closer to several other EllisLab folks; and this became highly advantageous when Rick adventured into Portland and he, Paul, and myself went out to dinner.  This was an important occasion, because previously I had lived in the NorthEast, and had not been able to make it to SXSW, I had not yet met any of my wonderful EllisLab family!  Neither had I yet ventured into Portland, so I had a very exciting evening. 

Now, this is...

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The Importance of Semantics: Displaying Categories

As some of you know, I recently (as in two weeks ago) moved from Massachusetts to Oregon.  Yesterday my “stuff” arrived, as I so gleefully bragged on Twitter.  Why, you might ask, am I sharing this with all of you?  Well, this article marks my first work-day in an “office”!  Most of you probably don’t know that all those years of answering technical support questions occurred on a couch with a laptop on my lap (ironic, eh?), and so I am especially proud today to be sitting at a desk, in...

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The Importance of Semantics

As many of you know, I’ve been obsessively refreshing and answering questions on these forums since May, 2004.  Over the course of 3 years one is bound to identify patterns of questions.  Now that I have the keys to the kingdom I can try to impart some of those tidbits of wisdom that I have accumulated.

If someone were to ask me: “what is the hardest thing to learn about EE?” I would have to say that the biggest hurdle is having that “light-bulb moment” about how ExpressionEngine...

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