ExpressionEngine User Guide - User Contributed Notes

/modules/comment/entries.html

2011-12-05T18:57:23Z

If you want to get the comment posters username then try this:

{exp:query sql=“SELECT username AS un FROM exp_members WHERE screen_name = ‘{name}’”}{un}{/exp:query}

I had a situation where commenters require membership to comment, and have their own member profiles. There seemed to be no tag to generate the user’s username, only their screenname.

/general/urls.html

2011-09-05T16:46:55Z

You might also be interested in my ExpressionEngine URL Schematic... handy for the planning stages of new builds.

/installation/update.html

2011-06-18T17:47:11Z

Why does the update folder have so many more folders and files than are mentioned above to move? A sentence or two about why they’re there and what level of optional they are would be helpful.

/modules/weblog/variables.html

2011-05-03T21:18:15Z

Remember:


{comment_total}

Shows the count only of the comments of status ‘open’.

/development/usage/language.html

2011-02-12T17:30:43Z

There is an error in the section entitled “Fetching a Line of Text”.

This is incorrect:


$DSP->title = $LANG->fetch_language_file('view_moblogs');

This is correct:


$DSP->title = $LANG->line('view_moblogs');

/cp/admin/members_and_groups/membership_preferences.html

2010-11-29T14:23:01Z

Please note that changing the profile triggering word causes an error in the member profile templates. The member trigger word is NOT updated in these templates, causing error links.

You can solve it by hacking the file profile_theme.php in line 190-199 (breadcrumb function), replace all “member/” instances by the new member trigger word.

/modules/weblog/categories.html

2010-10-26T06:19:39Z

The Category Dropdown Menu has bugged me for a while now so please use an unobtrusive method which can be found here -

http://css-tricks.com/unobtrusive-page-changer/

/modules/weblog/conditional_variables.html

2010-10-25T19:42:02Z


{if no_results}

isn’t working, be sure you have a require_entry=“yes” parameter in the enclosing loop.

/cp/templates/templates.html

2010-10-03T23:50:14Z

c/o Sue Crocker:

[If you have templates saved as files]:

If you change the name of the template group within the control panel, the resulting backend folder name doesn’t change.

But if you resave the file, EE creates a new folder with the new template name. The old one is still there.

/modules/weblog/category_archive.html

2010-09-29T15:56:03Z

Unlike the exp:weblog:categories tag, when manually/programatically specifying category ID’s, this one does not require a parent category ID in order to display the children categories. Another way to think of it is that exp:weblog:categories is hierarchical, drilling down from the top, whereas exp:weblog:category_archive can go directly to a specified category.

/modules/weblog/entry_tracking.html

2010-09-15T02:29:38Z

This configure.php setting may be helpful for you if you’re having difficulty getting this working.

$conf[‘relaxed_track_views’] = ‘y’;

Try adding it to you config.php and config_bak.php files within you /system/ folder.

/cp/admin/utilities/movabletype_import_utility.html

2010-08-20T16:58:15Z

Here are a couple tips in case you run into the same issues I did.

If you get an error, “Unable to Import Entries” make sure your config.php and path.php are set to chmod 666.

The import screen only shows fields that are textarea, text or select field types. So, if your Wygwam or other field frame field doesn’t show up in the list of available fields, switch it to a generic text or textarea field type and you should be all set.

/modules/weblog/parameters.html

2010-08-02T22:08:57Z

For some odd reason in our testing we found that using


status="Not status|names|you|dont|want|to|see|here"

we had less db queries than using


status="status|names|you|do|want|to|see"

.
Test this using

{if ip_address=="123.456.789.101"}{total_queries} queries | {elapsed_time} seconds{/if} 

and enter your own ip adress. Allows for testing the queries on a live site while hiding it from the general public.

/modules/weblog/parameters.html

2010-07-11T10:08:15Z

It looks like the search: parameter can’t be used with the entry title.

/modules/weblog/parameters.html

2010-06-28T20:20:26Z

The category = “not CAT_IDs” parameter will exclude entries that have ONLY the excluded categories.

So if an entry is assigned to two categories and your weblog call excludes one of those categories the entry will still be displayed by virtue of the other category.