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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How can I change a product form to show modifier stock when using Exp:resso's Store on Expression Engine?

When creating a product page for my shop, it's easy to show {total_stock}. But how can I display the stock of a modifier, or disable a modifier based on it's stock? For instance, when selling clothes, I want to only enable the size that are in…
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MSM Member Management across sites

I have a larger site that is broken into sub-domains using MSM. Each of these sites has its' own group of employees that manage that section. My thoughts were to create the Member Groups to reflect these employee groups and assign them proper access…
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Multi Language Approaches with ExpressionEngine

So it's been two years since I last built a multi language site and I'm starting a new one strait away. The last site I built I used the biber multi language module which seems to have had a name change since then and is now called Multi Language…
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How can I use a conditional to check whether a channel has any entries in it?

I have a Conditional Outside a Channel entries tag which should determin if a Channel has 1. Entries at all, 2. Expired entries, 3. Closed entries: I tried {if channel_short_name == "news"} But somehow that returns the wrapped content no matter if…
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Exclude certain entry from a Stash list

Okay so on my Homepage I want to pull out 3 lists of news items; major news, featured news and news headlines. There should only be one item shown under the Major News heading at a time and any other entries that are flagged as such will filter back…
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Secondary MSM site not working in ExpressionEngine

I'm having some trouble: I have an MSM-site, on both staging- and live-servers. I'm developing the secondary site, and have just moved to the live-server. Weird thing is it cannot connect to db. My bootstrapped config has this…
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Outputting variables within a plugin

Following on from this question, I'm now trying to rework the plugin so that I can do: {exp:deetector} {user_agent} {hash} {/exp:deetector} but with the code below, I get no output: public function __construct() { $this->EE =&…
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Showing a tag cloud by author

I have a site that has many users, each with their own mini-site. Part of this 'mini-site' is a blog. I'd like to show a tag cloud for each author. The basic cloud feature of Tag and Tagger will do this, but for ALL authors. Adding an author_id…
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ExpressionEngine - Notification email when 404 page visited?

According to the Template Manager hit count, my site is getting quite a few 404 hits. I can't seem to locate where those hits are coming in from, whether it's an one old dead link or several, etc. I would like to have an email automatically sent to…
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Using conditionals with stash:variable in stash:embed

I'm having Stash issues when using stash:variables within channel entry conditionals. template.html {stash:embed name="pages" stash:paginate="y"} pages.html {exp:channel:entries channel="page" dynamic="no" limit="{stash:limit}"…
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Working with Stash, Context and Categories in ExpressionEngine

I'm hoping there is a way to use Stash Context with Categories, for example, like so: {exp:channel:entries channel="channel-name" dynamic="no" disable="member_data|pagination"} {exp:stash:append_list name='list' parse_tags="yes" save="yes"…
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Importing data to expression engine v1 from xml

I want to import xml data as entries into a website running expression engine v1.7 Are there any extensions, modules, procedures etc. that facilitate this? Please note that I don't have any control over the xml data provided. Thank you in advance…
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ExpressionEngine->What tables to backup?

We have a deployment process where we are required to create a “rollback” point before a release is committed to our live server. We have a staging server where all release candidate code is tested. Now this staging server also includes all the…
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Remove any paragraph tags that have a child of img, but do not remove the img

I'm working with a CMS (ExpressionEngine) that wraps paragraph tags around images. I'm using responsive images (max-width:100%) and since I'm also defining widths on my paragraphs, its causing problems. I'd like to use jQuery to remove the paragraph…
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How do I generate a unique ID in Expression Engine 2?

Is there an EE2 tag that produces a unique ID? Or would I need to embed a PHP uniqid() call to get the desired unique ID? Thanks.