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An ExpressionEngine plugin is a PHP class with at least one method that translates into an ExpressionEngine tag and is used inside of ExpressionEngine templates.

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Getting NSM Live Look PHP errors, even after uninstalling

I've had issues and PHP errors with NSM Live Look. It's been uninstalled and I thought it was fine, but the client has just informed me that when they try to post or edit an item from just one ...
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Textile plug-in throwing PHP errors RE preg_replace /e modifier

I'm using the Textile plug-in on a new project and it's spawning PHP errors all over the place and complaining thusly: A PHP Error was encountered Severity: 8192 Message: preg_replace(): The ...
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Error Number: 1052 Column 'entry_date' in where clause is ambiguous

I've recently upgraded an ee2.5.3 site build up to ee2.11.9 (ready for further EE3.5x upgrade). The site also has an existing CartThrob 2.5 installation upgraded to 2.7.1 along with an existing ...
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Checking if a plugin is installed

new user to ExpressionEngine here. I recently developed a plugin that I'm using to apply a filter to content, but I run into an issue when the plugin isn't installed. Is there a way to check if a ...
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How can I manually parse template code from PHP?

Is there a way to evaluate an ExpressionEngine template using PHP in a custom plugin? I am using the Widgets plugin and want to create a custom widget type. I would like to define the widget output ...
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Database Insert is encoding data

So I have a custom plugin that inserts data from a csv. I build up the array of data and then issue the insert command. Right before the insert I am dumping my array so I can see the values which ...
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How do you get the parsed html of a page on the back end? (Within an Extension Using PHP)

How do you get the parsed HTML of a page on the back end? (Within an Extension Using PHP) EE5
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EE2 - plugins page blank

I’m getting the “white screen of death” in the control panel, though only on the Add-ons->Plugins page. I have turned on debugging mode, and the issue does not appear to have been caused by a PHP ...
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Store shipping plugin …

Does anybody have a sample shipping plugin for Store 2? The only one I have is for 1.5 and the documentation isn't very helpful. Thanks in advance, Cole
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CartThrob price field modifier to minus some amount from cart total

I am having issue in developing cartThrob tax plugin with fieldtype Tax plugin have this fields. I have created a field type that will call that tax settings and populates here. When I view in ...
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Parse some data with a plugin before sending as a email (plain text)

I'm trying to create a plugin to greet depends on the time of a day with a different phrase. The plugin works correctly on the ExpressionEngine environment but at the moment is not able to send any ...
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total_results of plugin nested within exp:query

I'm using the exp:query module along with a nested custom plugin that I've created. I need to get the count and total_results of the nested plugin but it's returning the count and total_results of the ...
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expression engine upgrade from 2 to 3 to 4

I've been working now for some years with EE2 but to upgrade to version 3 or 4 is not possible for me: To many plugins are not working with v3 or 4 or they don't exist anymore. It's a mess, sorry. ...
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Feed social for multiple accounts

Someone can suggest about a social feed plugin for EE3/4 that allow to have feeds for multiple accounts? Thanks
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Responsive mobile plugins going nowhere

I have spent many hours testing several of the popular mobile detect plugins and get mostly errors. When I look at their support options, they seem to have shut down many months ago. I'm starting to ...
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Plugin function not working

I've created a plugin for a client that has two methods, the first of which is called from within the home template: {exp:kapitex:get_products_carousel products="111, 113, 38"} ... which creates a ...
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Referrer/URL Helper ee3?

Really need the ability to grab the refering url that URL helper offered. Is this available for EE3 or is there an alternative?
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Any way to make Bloqs modular/reorder-able

So I'm using bloqs (https://eebloqs.com/) for a project. On the backend, it seems to allow the content to be re-ordered: but in the code on the front end the bloqs are hard coded in place in the ...
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Downgrade expression engine v3 to v2

Is it easy to downgrade from version 3.5 to 2.9? I have a client that do not like the interface and don't want to upgrade some plugin's too. And how must I downgrade Greetings Marc
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Expresso Store UPS plugin in production environment

I'm attempting to implement the UPS plugin in a production environment and running into a problem. On both my local environment and a staging environment at another live domain, the plugin returns ...
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Expresso Store: Updating stock after order completed

Is there a way in Expresso Store when refunding or deleting an order record (eg with Extension Hooks) to modify the Stock levels. For example if an order is placed for 10 items and is subsequently ...
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Plugin Development - Is it possible to extend the 'Grid' fieldtype?

I'm building a fieldtype plugin that is essentially planned to be an extension of the 'Grid' fieldtype. I can see in the docs how you create a new fieldtype to be used inside of a 'Grid' but that's ...
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Is there an ExpressionEngine current gold price plugin/module?

Client is looking to have a current gold price on their website, looking to see if there is a EE plugin or would anyone recommend a third party plugin? Something just like on this websites header: ...
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How to check if visitor is a bot?

On our site we use a plugin that uses the IP2Nation module to detect the country of the visitor. We then output amended content if the site is viewed from abroad - so instead of encouraging visitors ...
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Best SEO Plugin Recommendation

I need an SEO plugin that is similar to SEO lite, https://devot-ee.com/add-ons/seolite. Basically something that is simple, with global settings, and entry overrides. I like this plugin, but its main ...
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Calling plugin function depending upon input to template

I have a template that takes input from a form and and does several operations. These operations call plugin functions and I'd like one of them to call a different function if one of the input ...
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Expression engine 3 - plugin not being picked up

I am trying to create a simple plugin, however EE is not picking it up so I cannot enable it. class Age_gate { public static $name = 'Age Gate'; public static $version = '1.0'; ...
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Import data into EE database in a module - matrix error

I am importing data from another site via a module i am building. The channel I am importing to has a matrix field. I am doing this like so: ee()->load->library('api'); ee()->api-&...
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Plugin Development - using template params in a function

I'm querying an external timetable database, and I need to get the start and end points of the journey to use in a hidden field. My template code looks like this: {exp:get_piers:departure_pier ...
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AJW Feedparser feed stopped working

I have a site that has been using AJW Feedparser to embed an xml feed for months without problems, but has recently stopped working. If I open the cache file, the feed info is there, but it is no ...
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Attempting to use plugin to addslashes in a template not working

I am fairly new to EE so please bare with me. I have an issue where I want to use addslashes() on a template tag that is in an array. $product_array["{ProductEntryID}"][] = array( '...
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Understanding nested Loopee tag output

I decided to undertake cleaning up some crazy repetitive code using the plugin Loopee, which we are already using. I briefly looked at Loop Plus, but that seems to only handle numbers, so I didn’t try ...
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Image Path Not Resolved

I'm transferring my site to a different server. I'm building out a microsite on Expression Engine 1.6.8. The issue is the image path is not resolved using the Image Sizer plugin. Here is an example ...
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Template Not Detecting Plugin Class?

Working on a plugin integrating with the Active Campaign API. What I have is a folder inside third_party containing pi.ActiveCampaign.php with a lib folder containing the API. The class describing ...
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CK Finder Upload Plugin not loading in Opera

Just back to work from the Christmas break and for some reason when I try to upload images in the CK Finder File Manager I get a message saying "Couldn't load plugin", this only seems to be in Opera ...
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WSoD and Imgsizer Plugin

Site is running EE 2.1.3 and I'm now getting WSoD on a few of my front-end pages (notably those with imgsizer plugin enabled, the other pages without images are working fine). I've read that it's a ...
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trigger postmaster in an "api" request

Hi trying to make an API call that triggers a postmaster update parcel looked at this post I'm called my plugin from at jquery ajax call , all working fine can update the entry with the db class ...
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Cartthrob 2.70's Auto-Install Template issue with Bootstrap and Affix

I recently installed Cartthrob version 2.70. I used the auto-install templates during installation and have been altering them to suit my needs from there but I can't seem to fix a problem with the ...
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MSM and bespoke extension

I have inherited a site that makes use of a bespoke extension that has a long list of settings (https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/development/extensions.html#abstracted-settings-form-and-...
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Does the REElocate plugin bij exp:resso actually moves my ExpressiongEngine website or does it copy it?

Does the REElocate plugin bij exp:resso actually moves my ExpressiongEngine website or does it copy it? I have an ExpressionEngine website and I'd like to copy this to another domain (thus server), ...
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Truncate string with EE 3

There used to be all kinds of plugins for EE 2 that let you shorten a variable (or any string, really), some from EllisLab as well as a number of third-party ones. Some let you specify the number of ...
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Upgrading module from EE2 > EE3

Can I confirm that if a custom module does not have a control panel interface, conversion from EE2 > EE3 only requires the following changes: Create a addon.setup.php file
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Lang text with control panel interface

On a new project, the client requires that it be possible to add/modify all text. I will be using channel entries to hold majority of the 'content' text, but I am more perplexed by how I should allow ...
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Relationship field lookup in an EE plugin?

I'm in the unfortunate position of needing to fix a third-party plugin that was created under contract; the original developers are not available to fix it. From within the plugin, I'll need to look ...
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Custom column creation for template and plugin

I have a homepage template that I manually change and there are rows with 3 columns each. Each column is a topic with entries. I wrote out some PHP to programmatically to create these rows and ...
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Is there native OEmbed support (or a plugin that adds support)?

Is there a plugin available that adds support for oembed http://oembed.com/ to expression engine?
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What Addons are compatible with EE 3.0?

I am beginning the transition to EE 3.0 and have not been able to find a list of compatible plugins, add-ons, etc. Is there such a list?
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How to check for a boolean field?

I am writing a plugin, and everything is working fine so far. Some of my source data includes booleans. So I want to be able to test for true or false. {if show_data} <p>This is some data<...
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Can the 3rd tagpart of a plugin be used freely, or does it HAVE To be the name of a method?

I'm trying to make a plugin that I need to be as simple as possible to use. If possible, I want the usage to be: {exp:pluginname:anytext} And the output to be: anytext Obviously there will be more ...
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Create (generate) download links from files on server

My client wants to hold its PDF documents library for reference and easy-always-wherever access. The problem is that the library holds more than a thousand study documents. It's impossible to manually ...