Mee & EE: Sitting In A Tree

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MEE & EE:SITTING IN A TREETrevor Davis4.22.2011

4 IMPORTANT PIECES TO EE‣ Custom Fields‣ Channels‣ Templates‣ Tags

OK DEVS, DONT KILL ME...

EE SORTA HAS MVC PROPERTIES‣ Models == Custom Fields & Channels‣ Views == Templates‣ Controllers == Templates

CUSTOM FIELDS

CUSTOM FIELDS‣ Part of a ﬁeld group

MANY FIELDTYPES‣ Checkboxes ‣ Date‣ File ‣ Relationship‣ Multi-select ‣ Text input‣ Select ‣ Textarea‣ Radio buttons ‣ Create your own

CHANNELS

CHANNELS‣ Think of them as content types ‣ Ex: News, Events, Athletes, etc.‣ Contains ﬁeld group with custom ﬁelds‣ Categories

TEMPLATES

TEMPLATES‣ What actually gets rendered‣ Template groups ‣ /template_group/template ‣ /blog/index‣ Saved as ﬁles

TEMPLATE MANAGER

URL SEGMENTS

BEST THING EVER /blog/article-name/some/nonsense segment_1 == blog segment_2 == article-name segment_3 == some segment_4 == nonsense

CONTROLLER-LIKE TEMPLATES{if segment_2 == } //Render something{if:elseif segment_2 == category} //Render a different thing{if:else} //Render something else{/if}

EMBEDDED TEMPLATES

‘PARTIALS’ ‣ Repeatable pieces of content or functionality ‣ Pass parameters ‣ Function-like

EMBED CODE{embed="template_group/template"}{embed="template_group/template" channel="work"}{embed:channel}

CHANNEL ENTRIES TAG{exp:channel:entries} ...{/exp:channel:entries}

PARAMETERS‣ channel‣ category‣ orderby‣ year‣ limit‣ many more...

WITH PARAMETERS{exp:channel:entries channel="work" orderby="title" limit="3"} ...{/exp:channel:entries}

VARIABLES

SINGLE VARIABLES‣ author‣ entry_date‣ title‣ url_title‣ many more...

WITH SINGLE VARIABLES{exp:channel:entries channel="work"} <h2>{title}</h2> {general_body}{/exp:channel:entries}

WITH VARIABLE PAIRS{exp:channel:entries channel="work" limit="1"} {categories backspace="2"} {category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:channel:entries}

ADD-ONS

ADD-ON TYPES‣ Fieldtypes‣ Plugins‣ Extensions‣ Modules‣ Accessories

PLUGINS{exp:ce_img:pair src="{image}" max_width="200"} <img src="{made}" alt=""width="{width}" height="{height}" />{/exp:ce_img:pair}

EXTENSIONS

MODULES{exp:freeform:form required="name"} <p>Name: <input type="text"name="name" /></p> <p>Email: <input type="text"name="email" /></p> <p><input type="submit"name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>{/exp:freeform:form}

ACCESSORIES

THE BEST PART...

EE PUNS THAT MAKE BLAIR CRINGE‣ Hon-ee Pot Captcha‣ Repeet‣ Freebie‣ Shortee‣ CSVee‣ MD Dulee Noted

HAVE A HAPPEE DAY!

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