Questions tagged [expressionengine]

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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What are the some best ways to secure expressionengine?

The official docs only go as far to say put system above root and rename admin.php to something obscure - which is not security so much as it is inconveniencing bots that would otherwise simply try to hit domain.com/admin.php repeatedly, for…
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htaccess on ExpressionEngine MSM Site

I am running two ExpressionEngine sites on two different domain names using the MSM plugin. Site one has all the system files etc and site two is in a subfolder of site one. My question is how can I get site two to not have its index.php file in the…
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Getting the trailing slash back in ExpressionEngine 2?

I have just upgraded from EE 1 to EE 2 and I am struggling with some of the changes. For example, the fact that EE no longer outputs a trailing slash on its urls is making a mess of a lot of my links where I had depended on constructions like EE…
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Case Sensitive URL's - Can this be avoided?

First off, I know this is somewhat of a "dead horse", but I have trolled the internet and SO for a solution and found none. Unfortunately, this correct answer may be no answer. I have a site in expressionengine that is running on IIS7, (don't ask),…
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How can I adjust the ExpressionEngine search rate limit?

I have added a search functionality to my ExpressionEngine site, using the standard Search Module tags. However, I occasionally run into this error message: You are only allowed to search every 15 seconds. This only seems to happen when I'm logged…
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ExpressionEngine no_results not working

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High Memory Usage in ExpressionEngine Templates

I'm having an issue with, what I consider high memory usage, on a ExpressionEngine v2.5.3 install. This is a recent EE1 - EE2 upgrade if that makes a difference. An empty template on this project uses 10MB of memory. I tested on another v2.5.3…
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Is there ever a good reason to use PHP inside ExpressionEngine templates?

I've heard mixed things about this. I know it's easy when you're stuck to simply enable PHP in the template and hack your way around a problem. However, it almost always introduces potential security issues, and makes a mess of your template to…
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How can I insert HTML at repeating intervals in expressionengine?

I have a loop of entries and I want to apply formatting to every second entry - not just applying a class but also some basic HTML markup. How can I do this?
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ExpressionEngine: Single entry template

I have created a channel called credit cards. So I have created a template group called credit-cards with an index which loops through all the credit cards and output them. This aspect works fine, here is my code for the index.html file inside…
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Computing word, image, video and audio file counts in a scalable way?

I am attempting to gather as much interesting metadata as possible to display for readers of an expression engine site I'm developing and am looking for guidance on methods (or indeed the feasibility) of computing specific bits of this metadata in a…
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Expressionengine hooks

I have a safecracker form that submits an entry. The form consists of title, url_title, and description. I want to create an extension hook that filters out certain words if they exist in the title of the entry. I already have a function that take…
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Using EE's {entry_id} parameter to target individual entries in a Jquery function?

I have a show/hide Jquery function in place on a multi-entry page which toggles the visibility of extended content for each entry. It works nicely, however, when a “more” link is clicked it toggles the extended content for all entries…
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ExpressionEngine: Conditionally display custom fields in a channel entry form

I'm building a blog site in ExpressionEngine. I have two types of entries that I want to keep in the same channel. When a certain category is selected i'd like to show additional fields. **EXAMPLE Channel > Article Fields: - Title …
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Expression Engine Discussion Forum Module URL

Has anyone ever successfully integrated the ExpressionEngine Discussion Module within regular templates? I can include the code {exp:forum} into one of my templates and this successfully brings up the forum home page, but I get a 404 error on every…
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