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$_POST to EE template not working as expected
Do you have PHP Parsing Stage on "Input"?
<form method='POST' action='gen_req'>
<input id='input' name='uid' placeholder='uid' />
<button class='btn'>Go</button>
</form&...
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Adding quotes around a parameter causes error?
I believe you're running into problems with the parse order. When you add quotes, recipients becomes a valid parameter but it isn't parsed yet. When you remove the quotes, it becomes an invalid ...
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Is it possible to lock a template in Template Manager?
I can see couple ways to do this:
Create a special group as copy of SuperAdmin, but w/o rights to edit specific template group, where you will keep your original templates.
You can activate option ...
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Quick and simple way to determine which templates are used on an EE site and where
There's a similar post here
But you could just look in the template debugging info.
Another option would be to add something to each template that shows its name (either output to screen or as an ...
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SEO in URLs - dynamic template names?
Your default template group index can catch these URLs and embed the relevant template you want to display to list products.
But I'd be cautious on the amount of effort it will involve for little ...
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Save As File & Low Variables
Enabling Save As Files in Low Variables does have a slight performance impact. In order to tie in to native EE functionalities, LV needs to update the native exp_global_variables table with the data ...
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Use config variables in templates?
If by config variables, you mean the ones on config.php, it's pretty easy to do.
On your config.php add the following code:
global $assign_to_config;
if(!isset($assign_to_config['global_vars']))
$...
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Grid "no_results" not working?
There is no no_result variable or condition for grid. Use total_rows instead.
{if store_telephone_data:total_rows >= 1}
...
{if:else}
<td>N/A</td>
<td>N/A</td>
{...
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Parameter and Dynamic Variables
Layouts are a bit hard to get your brain around to begin with. There are two things you need to know, and I think you'll be on top of it.
Layout templates work by letting you drop the content from ...
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Using Playa passing values
I have resolved this by adding the option parse="inward" to the {exp:playa:parents} tag. So my code looks like below
{exp:playa:parents channel="article|blogs|calendar_events|contests|podcasts|...
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MSM - Template on site 1 and I want different url on site 2 to goto that template
Per the docs: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/msm/code.html#embedding-templates-from-another-site
Just embed the template and pass the variables.
'{embed="site_short_name:template_group/...
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How to load different stylesheets depending on the template
The simplest and and most flexible way is to use Template Layouts.
In your main HTML Layout wrapper (simplified) which we will say is named "_html-layout" in the "layouts" template group:
<html&...
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Channel entries vs embed files
I'm really confused by your question, but I'm going to make an attempt at clarifying some base concepts that I think you are wrongly assuming about a commercial grade CMS (content management system) ...
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Moving "templates" folder in EE5
There are clear instructions on how to move not just the templates but the whole of the system folder above the HTML root in the EE documentation.
HTH
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Relationship Field Conditional Not Working
Although it is technically less efficient, you should try embedding it to render as a tag in the conditional like so:
{if '{featured_movie:video_id}' != ''}
Try that. As in the docs, if it isn't ...
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Matrix rows out of order when outputting
Strange that you're getting a random output since orderby="id" is the default. Are you sure there isn't some kind of JavaScript that's reordering your fields on the front-end? You could try disabling ...
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Page responds with just a hash
How to fix
Disable template caching on all templates.
Problem #1: Why is the template rendering as {c1a3d...8712}?
This bug was caused by EE's Template Caching feature and Stash.
Stash has two ...
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Search relationship or relationship conditional
First thing to try is to remove the second conditionl to be sure it's that one which causes the problem.
Try using quotes in your second conditional so it looks like;
{if "{profession}{profession:...
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Child Page templates
ExpressionEngine relationships between pages / entries in the core are linear, there is no such thing as a child page.
If you want to have nested URLs, have a look at third-party add-ons, such as ...
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rawurlencode not rendering correctly in anchor tag?
It looks like you need to enable PHP in your template.
Alternatively, you could use a plugin for the URL encoding. For example URL Encode or CE String.
It's generally considered not the best ...
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Parse Order: how to pass a value from PI as an embed variable?
If it's two plugin tags that you are needing to nest, see changing parse order for nested tags using the parse="inward" parameter.
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How do I add a content-type header to my template?
You can use the HTTP Header plugin for this:
{exp:http_header content_type="application/json"}
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Quick and simple way to determine which templates are used on an EE site and where
AFIAK there is no quick/easy/simple way. You're on the hook for trying to generate every page within the site and reverse-engineering it to see what templates were involved. With Templates Routes now ...
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Global variable as a module tag pair's parameter?
One really simple way to get around parse order is just to use an embed.
{embed="embeds/_rest" ip_address="{ip_address}"}
Then in your embedded template (embeds/_rest):
{exp:rest url="http://domain....
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Simple exp:channel:entries not working on specific template
Adding dynamic="no" fixed this issue.
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Why are all snippets loading several times on page load?
The snippets are not actually "loading" - they are simply bits of text being stored in memory (much like global variables). They aren't actually processed until they're called. So they're not an ...
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Template Debugging: which entry is actually slow?
As a general rule in reading debugging logs, output statements that are designed to allow developers to profile the speed of their web application are always placed at the start of methods. Not the ...
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Channel does not show entries on specific template site
Add dynamic="no" to your parameters like this
{exp:channel:entries channel="gallery_slider" category="6" limit="1" dynamic="no"}
test output
{/exp:channel:entries}
ExpressionEngine tries to ...
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parse="inward" question
Tags inside parameters aren't parsed at all unless you use parse="inward". That's because once parsed a tags' parameters are removed from the template (replaced with the output of the tag). Thus tags ...
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Display Wordpress blog entries inside Expression Engine template?
Just to add to @jrothafer's answer, this should hopefully sort your import issue:
Data Grab
Article on importing Wordpress site into EE
And I'd have to highlight his statement regarding maintenance ...
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