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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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How to get an article description or excerpt within Expression Engine

I saw in Expression Engine I can use {embed:title} and {site_name} variables, but now I need a variable to pull an excerpt or description of the article itself. Is there such a variable/tag?
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Expression Engine Join Channels

I'm pretty new to Expression Engine and am struggling with the following. I have a properties channel and a property_images channel. A property can have one or more images. I'd like to display list of properties including an image and summary…
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Form Hidden Field Substitution

I'm building a form using Expression Engine's Safecracker module. One of the the required fields is the Title, which becomes the title of the EE channel entry. What I'd like to do is set the Title field to be the combined first name and last name…
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Accessing Expression Engine fetch_action_id function in a Module CP's view file

I am writing a script using AJAX in JQuery that takes an action_id from exp_actions as the destination URL for the method I need to execute in my mcp file. The reference is made statically. Can the ACT value be found by making a PHP call in the view…
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ExpressionEngine->validate $_POST variables in template

The following code is for a template that handles the forgot password section of our website. (Please don't berate me for it's stupidity, I didn't write it) What I need to do is embed '/inc/forgot_password_form' with a message of 'Your PID must be…
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Manage Image Submissions in WordPress

I have a client WordPress website that allows users to upload custom artwork from the front end. I use TDO Mini Forms to create the submission form, but it doesn't seem to have options for file manipulation on upload. As a result, the images are…
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ExpressionEngine categories - Need help adding dynamic class using if statements

This is a simple problem but i've been pulling my hair out the past two hours trying to figure a way to get it to work. Basically I have a jquery navigation set-up. I have 4 tabs, each tab is a parent category with child categories. When a tab is…
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HABTM relationships in ExpressionEngine

Is ExpressionEngine capable of handling HABTM (has and belongs to many) relationships, even if it's with a plugin? Basically, I have two channels: recipes and ingredients. A user needs to be able to create a recipe by assigning entries from my…
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ExpressionEngine - some channels not outputting content

So I've created a fair few EE sites before but never come across this issue, recently installed EE on a mediatemple grid host and all seemed to be working fine until I created multiple channels, some of the channels are refusing to output any…
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How can I hide the pagination on entry pages in expression engine?

I am currently building a site with Expression Engine. I have just put some pagination on my news pages. This works perfectly. However the pagination appears on the entry pages and I do not want it to. I tried {if segment_3 == ""} …
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Codeigniter Database Forge with multiple DB connections

I use multiple DB connections in my Codeigniter application. When I load dbforge it loads it for the current db connection. How can I set dbforge so it work with the second DB connection?
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wygwam / ckeditor nested divs

so.. i really want to use EE's great Wygwam extension that is built on CKeditor to put predefined div's into a wygwam field.. what i mean is i'd like to select a style from the drop down and something like the below gets inserted...
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Javascript and Expression Engine Tags

I have an EE site that has a flickrshow gallery on it. I would like to create a channel field to edit the flickr set id. The problem is that ee tags are opened and closed with curly brackets {ee_tag} so the js gets broken. is there a way to…
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Expression Engine - How do I upload an image using SafeCracker?

I am new to SafeCracker and while I have been able to enter most other input types, the File input type is not working correctly for me. Here is the code I am using on field type File named event_icon
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Export ExpressionEngine members to WordPress

I need to export all members from an ExpressionEngine site over to WordPress. How would I go about this? It seems like a daunting task to move them all over, including all their password etc. Any ideas on how to get started? It's fine if the users…
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