Manually login a member in ExpressionEngine
In ExpressionEngine, sometime it may needed to login a member manually not from the login area by having the username / password. All the member’s sessions are being created and managed...
Apr092013
Apr052013
Calculating member since time in ExpressionEngine
Sometime it can be required to calculate the time since an user has joined the website or registered. ExpressionEngine stores member’s registration date/time with member data so we can calculate the...
Apr042013
Get Last Segment of URL in JavaScript
JavaScript handles strings and arrays very well. Sometime its needed to get the last segment or file name of the current page URL and process it for another JavaScript/Ajax request. Here,...
Mar292013
Search and Replace from another table in MySQL
In MySQL, its easy to find occurrence of a sub-string within string and replace all that occurrences with MySQL REPLACE() function like: UPDATE tablename set table_column = REPLACE (table_column, ‘[string to...
Mar222013
Manually Clear Cached Data
ExpressionEngine have good caching feature. You can see about Data Caching and Performance. The cached data can be cleared from ExpressionEngine’s Control Panel -> Tools -> Data -> Clear Caching. Here...
Mar122013
Download remote file with cURL
cURL stands for “Client for URLs”. cURL is a library (libcurl) which allows PHP to communicate with other servers with different type of protocols. With the cURL its easy to download...
Mar102013
Quick Reference Chart for ExpressionEngine
One can find the Quick Reference Chart from here: Quick Reference Chart for ExpressionEngine v1.6x Quick Reference Chart for ExpressionEngine v2.5.5 I hope, it would help someone.
Mar102013
Customize WordPress menus in own way
Creating WordPress Navigation Menus is much easy from Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menu. Most of the time, it requires to customize these menus according to theme design and it can be...
Mar062013
ExpressionEngine Configuration Variables
If you are looking for setting all the configuration variables within the config file “/system/expressionengine/config/config.php”, you can find at Devot-ee: ExpressionEngine Configuration Variables.
Mar042013
Adding new emoticon images in ExpressionEngine
ExpressionEngine provides the feature to add new emoticon images. I looked at ExpressionEngine user guide for Emoticon Development which doesn’t seem working for me while adding new set of emoticons. I found the...
Feb132013
Connecting to Multiple Databases in ExpressionEngine
In the ExpressionEngine, we can have second or multiple database connections with default active database. In add-on development, it may be required to fetch the data/records from the external database rather...
Feb112013
EllisLab's plugins
If you are looking for EllisLab’s plugins, you can find from http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/index.html#available-for-download