ExpressionEngine 2: Total Domination

ExpressionEngine 2: Total Domination! #expressionengine

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Released on Dec 2nd, 2009

Built on the CodeIgniter Framework

Is a powerful, friendly content management system

Snippets of ExpressionEngine

We’re not here to talk sh*t ‘bout Wordpress

We’re not here to discuss pay vs. free software

We’re not being paid by EllisLab*

* We’ll TOTALLY take EllisLab’s precious, precious money.

“Content Management is about storing and retrieving your content.” - Barack Obama

ExpressionEngine excels at content entry. like a fox ...a sexy fox

We create a FORM assign it to a channel and enter CONTENT

EE2 Video Upload Form (theoretically)

Flynn Lives

Form Fields. “Is there anything more exciting than form ﬁelds? No. There is not.” - Zeus, Lord of Olympus

Forms are created by little pieces called Fieldtypes

Fieldtypes Native to EE2: * File * Select Drop-down * Relationship * Checkboxes * Multi Select * Radio Buttons * Textarea * Text Input * Love™* * May be lacking from your EE2...or stalled, horrible relationship.

Global Field Settings

Sample Fieldtype Settings File: Relationship: Select Dropdown:

Content Entry Form = Group of Fieldtypes

Here’s a ﬁeld group It’s pretty sweet. We named it “video”.

“Let’s assign our ﬁeld group to a channel. It will be so awesome, everyone will get pregnant.” - Bill & Ted, Historians

*guitar solo*

Channels are content of the same type.

“We enter content.” - Optimus Prime

AMAZING VIDEO FORM

Create your ﬁeld group. Assign it to a channel. Enter content. Booyah!

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Starter Files For ExpressionEngine 2 (the quickening)

Starter Files For ExpressionEngine 2 (the quickening) ...I’ll be here all day folks

What are Starter Files?

What are Starter Files? A reusable set of folders, ﬁles, and code snippets - used to begin a project.

Front-End Template Starter Files Every project is different. And every project is a little bit the same.

Front-End Template Starter Files

ExpressionEngine Starter Files Every EE project is different. And every Simple Search Form is a little bit the same.

Starter Files http://starterﬁles.com

http://starterﬁles.com

Search Forms http://starterﬁles.com

Search Results http://starterﬁles.com/search/results

Advanced Search Form http://starterﬁles.com/search

No Search Results http://starterﬁles.com/search/no-results

Contact Page http://starterﬁles.com/contact

Content Page http://starterﬁles.com/about

Login Functionality http://starterﬁles.com/

Login Functionality http://starterﬁles.com/login

News Landing http://starterﬁles.com/news

News Detail http://starterﬁles.com/news/detail

Twitter Timeline http://starterﬁles.com/

Heading Logic http://starterﬁles.com/ inc/header

So How Can I Use These?

So How Can I Use These? EE 1 : Save templates as flat files. EE 2 : Create templates from files!

Download http://starterﬁles.com/download

http://starterfiles.com @jennlukas http://jennlukas.com

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What are Accessories?

What are Accessories? • Handbags

What are Accessories? • Handbags • Persistent, or not

What are Accessories? • Handbags • Persistent, or not • 1337 hax0rs

Anatomy (ew)

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Lots more... • Screencasts • One-off controls • Support form • Site Stats

THANKS @mrwarren begoodnotbad.com

EE2 API

What’s an API “Documented” way of interacting with an application Standard way of interacting with data That means it won’t change, at least not without notice

What is the EE2 API?

Five Children API Categories Channels Entries Fields Templates

The Parent Class Notable Methods instantiate() _set_error() _unique_url_title()

The Entries Class Notable Methods entry_exists() submit_new_entry() update_entry() update_related_cache()

Advantages Validation Automatic date setting Automatic site_id setting Automatic high ASCII conversion

Advantages Automatic relationship updates Automatic cache busting Hook execution

Let’s Use It

Instantiate

Return

That’s it. Seriously.

Why I’m Excited 1. Extensions can co-exist now 2. Upgrades will be smoother

@markhuot

Questions? @jennlukas @kennymeyers @mrwarren @markhuot @ryanirelan

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