Tips tagged “Variable”
- Add a {last_segment} global variable
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Posted on June 28, 2010 by Erik Reagan
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
EllisLab has added an official {last_segment} tag as of EE 2.1.1. See info here: http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/2.1.1_release_what_will_be_there_what_will_not/—-
Sometimes it is quite handy to pull in the last segment of a URI. EE makes it easy to grab the first segment
- Add a dynamic page_uri global variable
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Posted on April 14, 2010 by Erik Reagan
For some strange and odd reason, there is no full page_uri global variable built in to EE (that I’ve found at least). You can access each segment with segment variables but there’s not a way to get everything after your domain. We can easily add one by opening our path.php file and adding a global
- Quickly test scalability
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Posted on June 02, 2009 by jacobgraf
While building a site, I frequently need to add dummy text to test how my site will scale when a user enters a big chunk of text. Instead of constantly heading to http://www.lipsum.com/ to grab some text, copy and paste it into my site and test it out, whenever I create a site, I always create a
- Embedding solves a lot of issues
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Posted on May 29, 2009 by Kelsey Martens
If you ever have trouble parsing data, or if you’re dealing with variable collisions (usually encountered when using Addons within other module tags), consider using an embed.
For example, if I want to place some code from the Favorites module inside the {exp:weblog:entries} loop, certain