ExpressionEngine Community Forums

Future of Forums?

2008-07-03T09:48:10-06:00

I am excited about the new features in v2, but the upgrade seems to focus on the backend (the experience of the admins) and on the already strong CMS capabilities.

Will the forums be supported in v2? Will they receive any love or better integration?

Also, is EE2 releasing this year?

(yes, I’ve checked out the EE2 preview page)

Top Ten Tags poll?

2008-07-04T14:03:15-06:00

When coding an EE site what are the top 10 tags, you go to after setting up the templates in customizing the newly created websites? Given that you’ve already setup the weblogs, categories and relationships.

Is it not time for Expressionegine team to start making some stuning templates for Expressionengine?

2008-02-24T10:39:38-06:00

I was so turned off of the default template! i don’t know what to say really!

Expressionengine looks like such a nice cms, why not have it show that in the design also?

id be great full for some good answer on this!

Cheers Daniel

PHP Security Question - Preventing Injections and Other Wonkiness

2008-06-24T01:52:52-06:00

Moderator’s note: Moved to General.

I’m just about to take my site live, but have one important security base to cover. I’ve got a form which sends a variable to an independent PHP page, and I want to make sure that I am protected from attacks or other weirdness. I really don’t know very much about PHP at all, so I’d appreciate any support someone knowledgeable of the language can offer.

Here’s an example of the code:

My HTML:

<form action="{site_url}otherpage.php" method="post" target="_blank">
<input name="variable" type="text">
<input type="submit" value="">
</form>

otherpage.php:

<?php $variable = $_POST['variable'];?>

<frameset rows="125, *">

  <frame src="http://www.mr-frame.com">
  <frame src="http://www.some-site.com/search<?php echo "?p=", $variable; ?>">

</frameset>

Is this vulnerable to attack? And if so, what can I do to secure the vulnerability?

User submitted blog??

2008-07-03T08:56:35-06:00

Is there a way that I can have user authored blog? Something where users could fill out a form and have the content put into a blog… sort of like comments but with custom fields?? Can I add custom fields to the comment system?

ideas, please

“Disable” parameters on weblogs boost performance

2008-07-02T12:10:13-06:00

Hello people,
While using “disable” parameters helps with queries and processing time I was curious if they are a needed/of use if certain features were disabled on weblog preferences level.
eg.
-myweblog = do not use trackbacks

then


{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myweblog" dynamic="off" disable="trackbacks"}

would this ‘trackback’ parameter then even make any difference with respect to processing performance of the query?
Thanks for sharing!

Templates using headers & footer

2008-06-30T16:44:37-06:00

I’m interested to hear thoughts on using embeddable headers and footers for templates. The pros of using a global embedded header and footer is that wrapper HTML can be edited in one place (e.g., global/.header and global/.footer) ... the downside is that it can get quite complex with a large amount of template logic in the nested templates.

Mod Edit: Moved to the General Forum

WHEW! My first EE site and I have a few questions

2008-06-14T17:02:54-06:00

I am about to step away from this computer for a little bit but I have a few questions regarding EE as I am developing my first site on this platform so let me begin.

I understand templates are basically pages, so I have created a template called Page_Layout and I use it as a base for all my main pages, i.e about us, contact, company info, etc. This appears to work fine for me being the site admin but there will be someone else doing minor updates to the site from time to time, like updated company news and there will be a blog. I am a little confused how I would set that up. It sounds like I would setup a weblog for just news and then one that will be a dedicated blog.

Then I would like to pull entries from both and list them on the homepage along with some static content from the template.

Can someone give me some direction to this

Next is a member list, the site lists companies in various markets like advertising and communications, I want each company to have their own page but I want that page to belong in a category like advertising so if someone is looking for such a company they can click the name advertising and it list all the companies. Any suggestions on setting that up?

Like I said this is my first site with EE and I hope I havent bitten off too much to begin, thanks so much for any suggestions you all may have.

Email Console Javascript

2008-07-02T22:17:38-06:00

Hello all.

Can someone tell me in what template is the javascript that controls the size of the popup window for the email console template when it’s accessed from the public profile templates in the forums.

Thanks.

how do you think EE would perform in this case???

2008-07-02T12:37:55-06:00

today i read a blog post about a site running Drupal. because of a promotion to win a Wii FIT the site has received 20k+ comments in 24 hrs, and about 33k in just 3 days. the site had no problem what so ever, even though it was running on a single server without much tuning and performance cashing.

I’m wondering if EE could have done the same thing? has anybody tried this?

>link- the original blog post with 33k comments > http://www.dooce.com/2008/06/30/my-hearts-beating-rabbit

>link- the guy that manages the site > http://blurbomat.com/archives/2008/06/30/drupal-is-rad/