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EEForum: Differences Between New, Active, and Pending

Question: What are the differences in the Forum Module between

New Topics Search
Active Topics Search
Pending Posts

Answer: New Topics search: These are the topics created since your “last visit”, and it ignores any that you have read

Active Topics search: Same as above, except instead of since your last visit, also limits to the past 12 hours

Pending Posts: Topics in the past month without any replies.

Topics that you make yourself are automatically marked as read, as you are sent to your topic immediately after posting.

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Friday, May 23, 2008

HowTo Create a Single Entry Page for Search Results

Question: How can I create a single entry page for my search results page?

Answer: A single entry page for your search results can be created by using the following code snippet:

{exp:weblog:entries limit="1"}
Whatever you want inside here
{/exp:weblog:entries}

This snippet can be put into whatever design you’d use.

Now that we have the basic components of the single entry template, I’d suggest making the following modifications:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="yourweblogname" limit="1" 
disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" }
Whatever you want inside here
{/exp:weblog:entries}

NOTE: If you are displaying categories or member information in your template, don’t disable categories or member_data.

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.htaccess for Sites

This is a sample .htaccess file I use on some of my sites.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

SecFilterEngine Off

The last item may not be needed for many sites, but for my server I need it.

Note to Self •

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Subsegment Plugin

Question: Where can I find the Subsegment Plugin?

Answer: See this thread.

Plugins •

Search Marker Plugin

Question: Where can I find the Search Marker Plugin?

Answer: Location: Search Marker Plugin

Plugins • Third Party Sites •

EEKB: What is a Full Server Path?

Full Server Path

Question: How can I find my full server path?

Answer: See this EEKB article:

EEDocs • Note to Self •

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Link to This Page

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Note to Self Link to ISAPI_REWRITE

For my own use: ISAPI_REWRITE

Note to Self • Windows Servers •

Monday, April 14, 2008

HowTo Automate Adding Categories

Question: How can I automate creating categories using a .csv file?

Answer: You can add categories in a relatively automatic fashion using some custom code.

NOTE: This code is very rudimentary. There is no built in error checking. Proceed at your own risk.

<?php
global $DB, $REGX;
/* Set variables */
$site_id = 1;
$group_id = 4;
$parent_id = 5;
$table1 = "exp_categories";
$table2 = "exp_category_field_data";

$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("http://www.example.com/edit/states.txt", "r");

while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, "\t")) !== FALSE) {
       echo "Title: $data[0]<br />\n";
       $url_title = $REGX->create_url_title($data[0]);
       $description = $data[0];
       echo "URL Title: $url_title<br />\n";
       echo "Description: $description<br />\n";
$data1 = array(
'site_id'                => $site_id,
'group_id'      => $group_id,
'parent_id'     => $parent_id,
'cat_name'      => $data[0],
'cat_url_title' => $url_title,
'cat_description' => $description);

$DB->query($DB->insert_string($table1, $data1));

$cat_id = $DB->insert_id;    

echo "cat_id: $cat_id<br />\n";

$data2 = array (
'cat_id' => $cat_id,
'group_id' => $group_id
);
 $DB->query($DB->insert_string($table2, $data2));

    $row++;
    
}
fclose($handle);
?>

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