Errata for ExpressionEngine 2

#44078: With the release of EE 2.1.0, the installer directory is now located at /system/installer instead of "the expressionengine directory in your system directory".

#44628: <small>Published on {entry_date format="%M %d, %Y"} by

outputs

Published on {entry_date format="%M %d,%Y"} by

No date is included in the outputs.--shin okada

#43678: The Create a New Custom Field form now has six additional options after Text Direction -- Show Formatting Buttons, Show Smileys, etc. They aren't mentioned in the discussion or shown in Figure 4.3 on page 50.--Brian Lokker

#45408: 'Publish Page Customization" does not have the options:
- Display URL Title Field
- Display Ping Buttons

It does have this:
- Display Rich Formatting Buttons
- Default Entry Title
- URL Title Prefix

So, tutorial can't be followed here.

--Martin van Duijn

#46627: "....category URL already exists, simply append _politics (as an example) to the category name..." should read "... to the category title" otherwise the display name looks wrong ie: you would get "World_politics" as the display when you actually want "World" as the display with the underlying URL having the value "world_politics".--Peter Brown

#46687: The core.css file has a font size of 15px for the right hand column news articles heading instead of 18px like the left hand column headings.

#sec-story-right h4 {
font-size:15px; <==== change this to 18px
font-weight:normal;
margin:0;
}--Peter Brown

#45006: pdf page 78:...index template under the site group in ExpressionEngine.

The "site group" should be "news_articles group" since the link "Read Story" points to "/news_articles/view", i.e., in page 82:
<a href="{title_permalink="news_articles/view"}" class="read_story" >Read Story</a>

In Section 4.2, the sentence: ''... As a last step, we’ll rename the “news” template group to “site.”... '' should be corrected as well. ("site" should be "news_articles")

There might be a few more similar instances elsewhere.
--pete

#45722: The CSS used in chapter 5 for the Engine City Times homepage breaks in IE7 (specifically the core.css from the "Engine City Times" directory). You must use the core.css from the "complete_templates" directory, specifically; complete_templates>static_tempates>css>screen>core.css. Also the IE patches must be copied in from the "patches" directory, the others are empty.--Mike

#44650: Hi,

I had a bit of a head scratching moment when it came to Embedding Reusable Code on page 89 of the PDF, as it doesn't explain that you need to choose the correct 'Template Type' when creating a template to 'embed' into another template.

It appears that embedding straightforward mark-up uses the 'Static' option, but when embedding tag pairs, 'Web Page' is needed.

I was stumped for a while when it came to embedding the category list as the Engine City Times pages were displaying the tag pairs and paramaters.

Best,

Sam

--Sam Grady

#43684: The CSS for the Related Articles section does not display the three articles in three columns, as shown in Figure 5.6. If the width of the columns is changed from 220px to 170px (matching the column widths for the Letters to the Editor), the three columns are displayed correctly. --Brian Lokker

#43685: In the discussion of template-category.html, the text says "To the right is a placeholder for a cartoon image." This placeholder appears to be missing in the template.--Brian Lokker

#43232: The initial Stylesheet that we are told to load (EngineCityTimes > CSS > screen > core.css) lacks some of the styles that are found in Complete Templates > static_templates > css > core.css. Because of this, when testing the Printe Edition template, the styles for the related entries do not work.--Ralph Mason

#43697: The code for the page_title embed variable is incomplete. To make it work, you also need to add the status parameter with the three statuses that have been defined.--Brian Lokker

#44163: {if:else} should be added to the saef.html code, to avoid the <fieldset>-tag being displayed when one is not logged in:

{if logged_out}
<p>To submit a letter you must have a member account. Please <a href="{path=member/login}">log in</a> or <a href="{path=member/register}">sign up for a free account</a>.
</p>
{if:else}
<fieldset id="saef-form">
...
</fieldset>
{/if}--Luc Van Dyck