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ExpressionEngine plugin - retrieve custom field info in your templates (saef)
14th January 2010
This plugin will let you retrieve all custom field info for use in stand alone entry forms or anywhere else. If the field has options there’s a variable pair for that. There’s no restriction on formatting either so you’re free to use it how you will. The project is available on …continue reading...
November 2009
ExpressionEngine entry excerpts outside of the search page
11th
If you need to use an excerpt for an entry perhaps inside an entry loop with several weblogs this plugin will automatically select the correct excerpt field then format and truncate it to a specified length.
October 2009
ExpressionEngine 2.0 & CodeIgniter
29th
no longer is ExpressionEngine limited to interacting with extensions or modules. No, with CodeIgniter entire applications can interact with your ExpressionEngine install.Kenny Meyers – EE Insider That is very very exciting news. Surely that sneaky little tid-bit is one of the most important parts of this new launch? I’d expect to …continue reading...
ExpressionEngine autocomplete search / jump menu with jQuery
7th
This tutorial will show you how to build an text input that will give autocomplete / auto suggestions via AJAX straight from an ExpressionEngine template then redirect straight to the entry. It could be used for searching, or shortcuts to particular entries, I have it working for the latter on a recent project. It will allow you to …
- Start typing parts of an entry
- Scroll through the autocompleted suggestions that pop up
- Click one (or use the keyboard shortcuts)
- Get redirected to the relevant entry on the relevant page
January 2009
TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor with TinyBrowser file browser in ExpressionEngine
27th
Extending ExpressionEngine with a WYSIWIG is a fantastic way to make edting your weblogs a lot easier. There are also some powerful file browser / management plugins out there too and in this post will see how to add both to your expressionengine site. You’ll evetually have the TinyMCE WYSIWIG editor …continue reading...
December 2008
Random RSS items with Magpie Expression Engine Plugin
18th
The Magpie RSS feed plugin for Expression Engine is ace, but there’s no support for displaying a random feed from the source. The following snippet shows you how.
July 2008
ExpressionEngine - Removing index.php
16th
ExpressionEngine ships with no URL rewriting, and that means that every page on your ExpressionEngine website will be prefixed with index.php. To remove the .index.php from each page you’ll need to do some URL rewriting. ExpressionEngine have some documents detailing how to remove index.php 
on their website, but they don’t cover if you’re hosting your site from a subdirectory (www.mysite.com/subdirectory/expressionengine/)
To remove index.php from your pages, just create a file in the root of your ExpressionEngine install called .htaccess. This will tell Apache how to rewrite the url to remove the offending prefix. Here’s how to do that:
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