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ExpressionEngine is a commercial content management system, written in PHP. Most ExpressionEngine questions will be better asked on the ExpressionEngine StackExchange, unless they involve development (such as developing extensions in PHP).

ExpressionEngine is a commercial content management system for websites. It is developed and sold by EllisLab and utilizes an open source PHP MVC framework called CodeIgniter (also created by EllisLab).

Most ExpressionEngine questions are better asked on ExpressionEngine StackExchange, unless they involve development (such as developing extensions in PHP).

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MSM 5 site setup with a common 404 page redirect

So I am working on a site with 4 sub-domains under the main. They already have an MSM license so I am using that to break out the subs. My question is: What is the best way to handle the 404 redirects for all of the sites? I want to use a common…
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Return value in login_form not working

I have a login form at the following page: site.com/en/downloads “en” is the user_language ( and is stored as such in a global var ) when I login, the form redirects me to: site.com/downloads While it should redirect me to the URL with my…
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ExpressionEngine textarea increase limit

Scenario: Client adds newsletters to his website textarea field cuts off the pasted source code at a particular character count. Looking at increasing the character count limit for the textarea so that the entire newsletter source code can be…
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Nesting an ExpressionEngine Channel Entry Tag Pair within another Channel Entry Tag Pair?

I did some searching around but I can't seem to find any information on embedding a channel entry tag pair within another. When I try the following code in a template, it breaks the page and I see the opening {reverse_related_entries sort="desc"}…
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WordPress vs ExpressionEngine: is EE worth the price?

I'm very new to coding (having only taken Web Development 101 at university aka 'OMG CSS u guise'), and I'm just beginning to realize that knowing HTML/CSS alone isn't good enough. I've decided that it would be best for me to learn the hell out of…
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Weird Javascript in Template. Is this a hacking attempt?

I validated my client's website to xHTML Strict 1.0/CSS 2.1 standards last week. Today when I re-checked, I had a validation error caused by a weird and previous unknown script. I found this in the index.php file of my ExpressionEngine CMS. Is this…
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Channels or categories?

I've exported about 2000 forum posts (split between 9 forum categories), each with up to 10 replies. I'm importing them as channel entries and comments. Would it be best to use a single channel and assign a category to each entry, or have a channel…
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What add-ons are creating messages in ExpressionEngine Dev Log?

Is there a way to know which add-ons are creating messages in the Developer Log in the EE control panel or is it basically a process of elimination? Example messages: A third-party add-on is calling $this->load->library('security'), which is…
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conditional based on time

Is it possible to trigger a conditional in EE via the server time? {if servertime == 'midnight to 13:00'} do this {if:else} do something else {/if} Thank you
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HTTPS & HTTP ExpressionEngine Site URL Tag

I have found out today that if you visit an EE site that uses the {site_url} tag in the path of the css link in the document head, that the site can not load the CSS file if you type in https rather than http. I have got round this by using a…
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What is the best way to log a user in programatically in ExpressionEngine

I'm building an app that allows the app to hit an ACT url which then triggers a module method to create a new entry using the ExpressionEngine API. However, as there is no user logged in / loggin in, it is not allowed to submit an entry to a…
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How to get a year list of entries in ExpressionEngine?

I need to get list of years of all entries for use in dropdown. Basically I need to group entry date by year and output grouped year in a list. something like this:…
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Strange Pagination issues adding /index/ between links - Expression Engine

I seem to be having an issue with the pagination on the news section appending an /index/ when using the {pagination_links} tag. My news page has a template path of news/index and the posts template is news/post. I am using structure with the…
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Create cookie if link clicked, redirects to clicked link on next visit

Site has two sections; 'Everywhere' and 'LA'. Default is 'Everywhere' section. How would I go about creating a cookie if the visitor clicks the 'LA' section link and when they return to the main site on another visit, they are redirected to that…
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How do I use Structure to output a select menu

I am working on a responsive site and need to output my Structure powered nav into a select menu for smaller screens. In looking at Structure's documentation this doesn't seem possible natively. Am I missing something? After some digging it seems…
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