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Plugin: Send Email

2010-03-19T13:21:31-06:00

The free Send Email plugin lets you send an email from within an ExpressionEngine template without the user submitting a form.

It’s compatible with both EE v1.x and v2.x.

It’s probably most likely to be useful when placed within an embedded template that is loaded using ajax by some user action in the parent template (at least, that’s what I used it for).

Downloading the file requires registration at Engaging.net.

Plugin: Category Count

2009-01-07T06:59:11-06:00

As I was working on this plugin, I kept thinking: I really hope that this is a core function that I just not finding. This plugin does one simple thing. It returns the number of entries associated with a given category.

This is how it works:


{exp:catcount cat_id="33" status="open|close"}

This would output a number, such as “12” where you place it.

It can also work nested within the exp:weblog:categories like so:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{current-weblog}"}
<li>{category_name}({exp:catcount cat_id="{category_id}"})</li>
{/exp:weblog:categories} 

Please let me know if there is a core function that does this, and if not… enjoy

Edit Feb. 19, 2010
1.1 - Added status parameter (Jan. 7, 2009)
2.0 - EE2 compatible

Plugin: Structure Entries - Add-on for Structure module

2010-01-25T07:03:36-06:00

Structure Entries v1.0.5 Download here

For support please post here: Get Satisfaction. Please don’t send issues to Travis/BuildWithStructure.

Extends the excellent Structure module with a tag pair that allows you to output your Structure managed pages with your own html markup, with control on the depth of parent/child and doesn’t need to sit inside {exp:weblog:entries} tag pair. It also supports categories.

Obviously you’ll need Structure installed!

This can be used to output a menu, summary of a group of pages, bullet points on screen, whatever.

Example Sites:

Northstar Energy website: Used for the top navigation, the relevant pages are associated with a category called “main navigation” and the order is defined by Structure.

Angulo website: Used for the complete top navigation - including the rollover dropdown menus and all images, titles, etc. Originally done in native Structure, with loads of additional embeds and weblog:entries to pull the relevant information. Now all done using 1 call to structure_entries and shaved 10 seconds off the loading time! Also used on the footer navigation, the sponsors links (footer), which are all the children of the sponsors page and on the summary pages, to pull all or a limited amount of child pages (see here).

Code:

{exp:structure_entries depth="2" parent="10" category_id="7" limit="4"}
...
Your html markup and EE Fields.
...
{/exp:structure_entries} 

It’s a tag pair, so always needs the closing tag. All parameters are optional, defaults are shown below.

Parameters:

depth - to restrict how deep the output is (defaults to 0 - all)
parent - to only show the children beneath the specified parent (including grand-children, etc). This can be either the entry_id of the parent or the path to the parent.
category_id - the category ID that you want shown - only entries (including children) assigned to the specified category will be shown.
limit - restricts the output so only the amount of pages you specify will be shown (handy for summary pages, where you might only want to show a few of the child pages). Default is unlimited.
status - limit output to a specific status (can only handle one status), by default outputs all status except “closed”.

Variables:

Additional variables available (beyond the standard EE fields and custom fields) include:
{page_uri} = Is the entry URL value
{page_url} = Is the URL to the entry as returned by Structure
{current_page} = returns 1 (true) if the current page matches the page output by the entries loop
{depth} = Displays the current level of pages deep this page is (how many parents it has)
{parent_id} = Entry ID for the parent of the current page, if it’s top level, it returns 0
{count} = running counter for all entries that match the supplied parameters
{total_children} or {children_total} = Total entries that match the supplied parameters (depth, parent & category)
{last_child} or {last_sibling} = Returns true or false boolean to indicate if the entry is the last sibling in the current group and level of entries
{sibling_count} = running counter of siblings working through the current group at the same level
{total_siblings} or {sibling_total} = total siblings for the current group at this level

Example Code:

Example 1 (very basic):

{exp:structure_entries}
  {title}
{/exp:structure_entries} 

Which will list all structure entries (any depth/level) and any fieldname/variable specified within the template tags will be shown.
FF Matrix is supported with a very minor amend to the FieldFrame code.

Example 2:

{exp:structure_entries parent="10" depth="1"}
   <li {if {current_page}}class="current"{/if}>
       <a href="{page_uri}"><img src="{theme-url}/images/{page_url}.gif" alt="{if " /></a>
   </li>
{/exp:structure_entries} 

Displays the children (1 level) of a specific parent, using images and custom fields as an alternative to {title}.

Example 3:

{exp:structure_entries category_id="6" depth="1"}
    <li {if {current_page}}class="current"{/if}>
        <a href="{page_uri}">{if "{alternative-title}" != ""}{alternative-title}{if:else}{title}{/if}</a>
    </li>
{/exp:structure_entries} 

Similar to example 2, but defined by a category.

Example 4:

<ul>
{exp:structure_entries}
{if {depth} == 1}{!-- Top Level --}
    <li>
        <a href="{page_uri}">{title} Depth={depth} Parent={parent_id}</a>
  {if {children_total} == 0}{!-- No Children - so close markup --}
    </li>
  {/if}

{if:else}{!-- Children (not top level) --}
  {if {sibling_count} == 1}{!-- First child - so open markup --}
        <ul class="level{depth}">
  {/if}
            <li>
                <a href="{page_uri}">{title} Depth={depth} Parent={parent_id}</a>
  {if {children_total} == 0}{!-- No Children - so close markup --}
            </li>
  {/if}
  {if {last_sibling}}{!-- Last Child - so close markup --}
        </ul><!-- End of level{depth} -->
    </li>
  {/if}
{/if}
{/exp:structure_entries}
</ul> 

This will output any level of page depth with correct opening and closing of the list markup

For support, more help, comments, slating, please post here: Get Satisfaction

Plugin: Summary

2010-02-08T15:23:01-06:00

This plugin will take a block of text and only return the first line (e.g. everything before a newline/return). It’s useful for showing summaries/excerpts from blog entries or on EE search result pages where you don’t have an exceprt/summary field already setup. HTML is not stripped out either.

Usage is simply:

{exp:summary}
    Text to be processed
{/exp:trim_title} 

An example would be as follows:

{exp:summary}
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent nulla mauris, pharetra ac iaculis at, aliquet id diam.</p>
    <p>Suspendisse sem massa, lacinia ac auctor at, fermentum sed arcu. Quisque lobortis porta neque, ut venenatis magna feugiat vitae.</p>
    <p>Mauris vehicula semper accumsan. Proin mollis enim nec enim adipiscing congue. Vestibulum vitae iaculis odio. Ut tincidunt, dolor quis volutpat accumsan, ante massa feugiat nisl, vitae pulvinar leo ipsum at purus.</p>
{/exp:trim_title} 

What would be returned is this:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent nulla mauris, pharetra ac iaculis at, aliquet id diam.</p> 

You can also specify how many lines to return by flagging the returns parameter:

{exp:summary returns="2"}
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent nulla mauris, pharetra ac iaculis at, aliquet id diam.</p>
    <p>Suspendisse sem massa, lacinia ac auctor at, fermentum sed arcu. Quisque lobortis porta neque, ut venenatis magna feugiat vitae.</p>
    <p>Mauris vehicula semper accumsan. Proin mollis enim nec enim adipiscing congue. Vestibulum vitae iaculis odio. Ut tincidunt, dolor quis volutpat accumsan, ante massa feugiat nisl, vitae pulvinar leo ipsum at purus.</p>
{/exp:summary} 

...will return the following:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent nulla mauris, pharetra ac iaculis at, aliquet id diam.</p>
<p>Suspendisse sem massa, lacinia ac auctor at, fermentum sed arcu. Quisque lobortis porta neque, ut venenatis magna feugiat vitae.</p> 

If you leave out the returns parameter, it will default to only return the first line.

You can download the latest version here:

http://ee.cwhapps.com/plugins/summary/latest.zip

Plugin: CSS3 (auto prefix CSS3 properties)

2010-03-05T18:08:23-06:00

For each advanced CSS3 property, use this plugin in a CSS template to spew out all the supporting browser prefixes (supports Gecko, Konqueror, Opera, Trident, and Webkit).

Refer to the Mozilla site for implementation style and ideas: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS_Reference/Mozilla_Extensions

For example:

#rounded_box {
    {exp:css3:borderRadius value="1em 2em 3em 4em"}
} 

...outputs:

#rounded_box {
    -moz-border-radius:1em 2em 3em 4em;
    border-top-left-radius:1em;
    border-top-right-radius:2em;
    border-bottom-left-radius:3em;
    border-bottom-right-radius:4em;
    -webkit-border-top-left-radius:1em;
    -webkit-border-top-right-radius:2em;
    -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:3em;
    -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:4em;
} 

MORE SAMPLES


{exp:css3:backgroundClip value="content"}

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-background-clip


{exp:css3:backgroundOrigin value="content"}

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-background-origin


{exp:css3:backgroundSize value="100% 100%"}

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-background-size


{exp:css3:borderImage value="url(image.png) 1px 2px 3px 4px"}

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-border-image

{exp:css3:borderRadius value="1em"}
{exp:css3:borderRadius value="1em 2em 3em 4em"}
{exp:css3:borderRadius value="1em/1px"}
{exp:css3:borderRadius value="1em 2em 3em 4em / 1px 2px 3px 4px"} 

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-border-radius
Note: Make sure you use 1 or 4 space-delimited values. Since cases where 2 or 3 values would make sense seemed so rare, I didn’t bother supporting those. Also, for horizontal/vertical radii, use the Mozilla slash style.


{exp:css3:boxShadow value="1px 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.5)"}

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-box-shadow


{exp:css3:boxSizing value="border-box"}

see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/box-sizing

UPDATED 2010-03-18

EE 2.0 version
(branched at http://github.com/stedman/sd.css3.ee_addon/tree/ee2 )

background linear gradient


{exp:css3:backgroundLinearGradient value="top, #fff, #000"}

{exp:css3:backgroundLinearGradient value="left, rgba(0,10,20,.5), rgba(200,210,220,.5)"} 

IE example:

<!--[if IE 8]>
.shadow {
  {exp:css3:boxShadow ie="8" value="1px 2px 3px #666"}    
}
<![endif]--> 

...outputs:

<!--[if IE 8]>
.shadow {
  -ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow(OffX=1px,OffY=2px,Color='#666')";
}
<![endif]--> 

IE Usage:


{exp:css3:backgroundLinearGradient ie="8" value="top, #fff, #000"}


{exp:css3:boxShadow ie="6" value="1px 2px 3px #666666"}


{exp:css3:opacity ie="6" value="0.5"}


{exp:css3:transformRotate ie="6" value="10deg"}

DOWNLOAD from GitHub
http://github.com/stedman/sd.css3.ee_addon

plugin: Image Sizer

2007-10-04T08:01:37-06:00

This plugin will resize any JPG GIF or PNG image to the desired size specified
in your EE tag and cache the resized image to the cache folder. If you update
the original image a new resized version will be created. If the image is not on the server the tag will not return anything.

{exp:imgsizer:size image="/images/news/moped.jpg" width="200" alt="My Title" id="img_5334" class="entry_img"} 

will output

<img src="/images/news/cache/200x134-moped.jpg" width="200" height="134" alt="My Title" class="entry_img" id="img_5334" /> 

you can Download here

Plugin: FeedGrab

2006-08-29T08:49:03-06:00

The aim of this plugin it to allow you to grab data from RSS feeds and insert it into your own weblog.

The motivation behind it is to produce something similar to http://www2.jeffcroft.com/tumblelog/ where various sources of 3rd party information are brought together in a single place. On a simpler level it could be used to import links to, say, your flickr images so that the image appears as part of your weblog, on the correct day.

The plug in has only been tested for my own purposes, but I’m posting it here in case any one else might find it useful.

Basic usage is:

1) Create a new template

2) Add a call to the plugin, eg:

{exp:feedgrab url=“http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=25509357@N00&format=rss_200”
weblog=“1”
title=“title”
date=“dc:date.Taken”
use=“link|description”
fields=“extended|body” }

(This tells the plugin to grab the feed and for each item in the feed put its link and description in the weblog entry’s extended and body custom fields, using the feed item’s title as the entry title and its dc:data.Taken field as the entry’s publish date. The weblog parameter allows you to specify which weblog to put the data in.)

3) Call the template, either by hand or through a cron job

A known issue is that it breaks the Plugin Manager! I’m pretty sure that this is because it ‘shares’ code with the magpie plugin. Any help to get around this would be appreciated…

Edit: Please see the FeedGrab page to download current version

Edit:I’ve created a support forum on my own site:

http://brandnewbox.co.uk/forums

Can I recommend further problems are raised there. I am more likely to see them and each can have there own thread.

Video Player plugin for Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Veoh, MySpace & more

2009-11-05T09:26:20-06:00

Video Player is a plugin that lets you easily get the embed player code for Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Veoh, MySpace, Metacafe and Revver videos, from the video URL.

Video Player is available on EE 1.6 & EE 2.0

Notice : You have to set the Weblog/Channel preference “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” to “No” in order to make the plugin work

The Tag

{exp:videoplayer src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qYN3YtPfU" width="800" height="600"} 

Tag Parameters

src=
[REQUIRED] The URL of the Youtube, Vimeo or Daily motion video you want to embed in the player.

width=
[OPTIONAL] The height of the player. The default value is (425).

height=
[OPTIONAL] The width of the player. The default value is (344).

error=
[OPTIONAL] The error message displayed if the video service can’t be found. The default value is an empty string.

Change Log

Video Player 1.1 (12/01/2010)
- New video services supported : Veoh, MySpace, Metacafe and Revver
- Optimized video id detection with the use of regular expressions

Video Player 1.0.1 (17/11/2009)
- Using preg_match() instead of ereg() (ereg function has been deprecated in the upcoming PHP 5.3.0)

Video Player 1.0 (17/11/2009)
- Customizable error message with the new “error” parameter
- Handles urls with and without the “www.” segment

Plugin/template embed parse order

2010-03-16T19:30:07-06:00

Hi - I’m wondering if it’s possible to pass the value from a plugin as a variable in a template embed - something like this:


{embed="my_template" variable="{exp:my_plugin:value}"}

I thought embeds were parsed right at the end, but perhaps they’re parsed before plugins?

Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Tim

ps - I’m using EE2 at the moment

Plugin: Tweet This

2009-05-25T21:21:51-06:00

I am proud to release my first Expression Engine plugin. This one is named Tweet This which will allow you to add a “Tweet This” link in your blog entries. This will enable visitors to tweet the entry. By default it will use the is.gd url shortening service to make the link short and also trim the title to less than 70 characters.

Example Usage


{exp:tweet_this title="{title}" url="{title_permalink=blog/entry}"}

PARAMETERS

title=”{title}”
- The title of the entry.

url=”{title_permalink=blog/entry}”
- The url or permalink to the entry.

no_short_url=“TRUE”
- Do you not want to use the is.gd url shortening server?

link_title=“Tweet This!”
- This is the link title. Could be text or image.

Requirements
- Curl
- json_decode for bit.ly

Help & Support
I make absolutely no guarantee I can offer support but if you need help post here or leave a comment on my site: http://ericlbarnes.com/blog/develop/ee-tweet-this/

UPDATE
mdesign has put up a repo on GitHub that is extensively updated: Short’n Tweet There are comments in the plugin about the bit.ly stuff. If anyone wants to fork it, optimize and improve it…have at it!
http://github.com/mdesign/shortn-tweet.ee_addon

UPDATE December 06, 2009
Now forked to work with EE 2.0:
http://github.com/ericbarnes/shortn-tweet.ee_addon