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Over a series of 8 videos, watch and learn as Ryan builds an entire ExpressionEngine website from beginning to end. Get started now.

Greg Aker Builds an EE Module

Everybody’s favorite Kansas basketball fan, Greg Aker, started a series of blog posts covering how to build an ExpressionEngine module. It’s a three part series and you’ll learn how to set up your module code, write the control panel code and then how to write the template tag code.

For this project, Greg is building a URL shortener:

Well, everyone and their dog has built or uses a URL shortener. So let’s build one together. I’m going to break this up into a series of posts, as it could be serious information overload. I’d like to take you through my thought process a bit on when I’m building something from scratch in ExpressionEngine.

Read and follow along with the first post in the series: Let’s build an ExpressionEngine Module!

Posted on Mar 14, 2011 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: Development Tools, EE Add-ons