ExpressionEngine intro given internally.

4. GRILLED CHEESE
TO PERFECTION
arnold | inuyaki

5. MEE & EE:
SITTING IN A TREE
Trevor Davis
4.22.2011

6. 4 IMPORTANT PIECES TO EE
‣ Custom Fields
‣ Channels
‣ Templates
‣ Tags

7. OK DEVS, DON'T KILL ME...

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

9. CUSTOM FIELDS

10. CUSTOM FIELDS
‣ Part of a field group

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

12. CHANNELS

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

15. TEMPLATES

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

17. TEMPLATE MANAGER

18. URL SEGMENTS

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

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

21. EMBEDDED TEMPLATES

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

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

24. TAGS

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

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

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

28. VARIABLES

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

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

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

32. ADD-ONS

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

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

35. EXTENSIONS

36. 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}

37. ACCESSORIES

38. THE BEST PART...

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

40. HAVE A HAPPEE DAY!