ExpressionEngine User Guide - User Contributed Notes

/modules/forum/recent_forum_topics.html

2008-07-25T12:29:16Z

Note: This works only if your forums are open for guests to read them. So if you use this, only logged in users will see those recent posts in your templates what you have put there if your forums need login to read posts!

/installation/update.html

2008-07-21T22:06:22Z

RE:supersusie on 21 July 2008 5:03pm - when themes need to be updated, those are covered in detail in the version update notes in Step 5, since not every version update will require those changes.

/installation/update.html

2008-07-21T22:03:21Z

This page currently doesn’t mention having to update or replace the “themes” directory, just that you should back it up.

It is true that from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 you don’t need to change themes. But if you’re going from an older version of EE, you do need to use the new theme files.

/modules/weblog/calendar.html

2008-07-19T21:01:17Z

It appears that {entry_id} is also available within the {entries}{/entries} variable pair.

/cp/sites/code.html

2008-07-14T18:45:30Z

If you are developer and you are MSM-ifing your module.

Check the $TMPL->site_ids array, which will automatically be set for you when a site= parameter is used in your module’s tags

/modules/member/login_form.html

2008-07-14T16:50:23Z

If you want the user to return to where they were after directed to log in, just leave off the return parameter.

/modules/weblog/entry_form.html

2008-07-14T04:03:14Z

See also the Solspace (third-party) Form Helper plugin and SAEF Redirect extension

/modules/search/advanced.html

2008-07-10T00:39:11Z

If you have two advanced search forms on the same screen - such as one in a sidebar/header and another on your advanced search page - be sure to declare a unique id in one of your sets of advanced search tags.

/modules/mailing_list/index.html

2008-07-09T20:16:39Z

Exporting a mailing list

/cp/admin/weblog_administration/custom_fields_edit.html

2008-07-07T20:41:02Z

In addition to Eric’s post of using the field group in the naming scheme, I also do, site_name-variable_type-field_group-field_name, so some fields end up like {site1_cf_events_name} or {ccf_events_name} for a custom category field.

/cp/admin/utilities/translation_utility.html

2008-07-05T23:50:14Z

I copied the lang.earch.php from my foreging language into the english directory. The Search Results page was then properly displyed in the other language. You wil lneed to re-copie each time you update the System

/modules/ip_to_nation/index.html

2008-06-29T03:46:06Z

some ip’s are turning up as gb rather than uk - there is no flag for this. The solution is to copy flag_uk and rename it to flag_gb and upload to server.

/modules/wiki/wiki_installation.html

2008-06-28T12:29:48Z

If you will be using foreign glyphs, even standard ISO-8859-1 European ones, you will need to test the character-set setting in your control panel against the table and column settings for “collation” in your mySQL database.

It is very easy for the to have what appears on the page and what appears in the database fall out of sync and consequently for the EEWiki to lose the ability to make edits and updates.

The easiest way, naturally, is to run your application at EngineHosting on 101% utf8/utf8-generic-ci databases. Anyone using standard (ie latin/swedish) hosting is recommended to change the collation to utf8 before installing EE then set the EE character-set to UTF-8 BEFORE adding any data to the Wiki.

Trying to run latin/swedish + iso-8859-1 + foreign glyphs simply does work.

/modules/gallery/variables.html

2008-06-27T10:02:20Z

{gallery_id} is also available.

/installation/masked_cp_access.html

2008-06-22T20:54:22Z

Just wanted to point out that for those users who are using the Multiple Site Manager (MSM) that if users do not have access to reach the control panel on your base site, than they won’t be able to access the CP of the site in which they intended to access.

In part of what helped me solve this issue is using this admin.php method and placing it directly into the specific site itself.