EE Quick Reference Chart
by Ryan Irelan
So, you’re starting out building your first site with ExpressionEngine and you’re thinking to yourself: “I wish there was an easy one-page document I could use to reference some of the most commonly used ExpressionEngine tags and variables.” Well, you’re in luck.
The Quick Reference Chart has been around for a long time but it’s something first-time EE users might still find helpful. I used it when I first started developing websites with EE and I could probably use it now so I don’t have to keep looking up the date formatting codes.
It’s not a replacement for the easy-to-use EE Documentation, but it’s probably worth printing out and keeping on the desk in front of you. The cheat sheet comes as a gif image file or as a PDF.
You probably want to print it out or, save paper, make it your desktop image for easy reference!
Posted on Apr 29, 2009
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Jacques — 08:56 on 04.29.2009
I have this chart posted one my wall behind me. Since I’m not continuously working on an EE project, it’s easy to forget the basic syntax. This chart is a big time saver.
Make Hay Jez — 10:09 on 04.30.2009
This one is on my wall too - ever since I first started developing EE sites.
The date formatting codes are the ones I never seem to remember too and always end up looking them up!
MarmaladeToday — 05:22 on 05.03.2009
It is great for some things, but as you say it has been out for a long time, and there have been updates aplenty since, so there are quite a lot of things that it just misses completely.
It’s a shame that it isn’t kept up to date or labelled with the version number to which it was true.
Kyle Petersen — 12:59 on 05.04.2009
Thanks for posting this. I’m new to EE and this is exactly what I was looking for!
Nik Fox — 18:23 on 05.08.2009
Ooo… I would never call the EE documentation “easy-to-use” if you’re starting out with EE.
Its a minefield: the tutorials are inadequate, and when you’re a newbie, figuring out how EE tags work is not easy. It was Ryan’s screencasts that really laid the foundation for me. The documentation is a great reference once you understand the basics and need to look something up, but when you’re starting out? No.