Erik Reagan on Building Your First ExpressionEngine Plugin

Erik Reagan has written an article entitled “Building Your First ExpressionEngine Plugin”. The article, which goes into great depths and is very well written, discusses the following:

For this tutorial we are going to create a simple plugin that scans through the data passed to it and wraps certain strings with HTML tags. This is a very simple application of an EE plugin and should show you how easy it is to get started with plugin development. Our plugin will be used to search for and replace acronyms that we use as developers. For the sake of the example we will stick to three: HTML, CSS, and RSS. Let’s call the plugin “Auto Acronym.”

There have been very few articles about developing addons, so it’s great to see one done so well. Hopefully, we’ll see more and more of these types of articles as ExpressionEngine 2.0’s release date comes closer and closer. If you are writing or have written a great one let us know.