Errata for ExpressionEngine 2
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#46119: Can you please discuss snippets vs. global variables citing specific examples when we should use one as opposed to the other. Thanks!--Janet Beckley |
P2.0
26-Dec-10 |
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| 22 |
#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 s...more...
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P2.0
12-Jul-10 |
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| 37 |
#45157: There is a space between the end quote and the end curly bracket in {current_time format="%D, %F %d, %Y" }. It will not display correctly unle...more...
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P2.0
26-Sep-10 |
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| 39 |
#44028: Why are the words "for" and "use" displayed in a different color, in the code-block? If the different color is meant to emphasize the changed ...more...
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P2.0
11-Jul-10 |
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| 42 |
#44029: The code example on this page is meant to explain a tag pair. As the code is not used in a template, it should not be downloadeable.--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
11-Jul-10 |
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| 45 |
#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...more...
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P2.0
16-Aug-10 |
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| 47 |
#43679: "We also have the option of creating new a template for this channel."
Should probably read:
"We also have the option of creating a new ...more...
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P1.0
07-Jun-10 |
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| 48 |
#44030: "to" has to be added in the sentence: It’s up to us build a simple--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
11-Jul-10 |
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| 51 |
#43678: The Create a New Custom Field form now has six additional options after Text Direction -- Show Formatting Buttons, Show Smileys, etc. They are...more...
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P1.0
07-Jun-10 |
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| 53 |
#43420: The phrase, "navigate to the System Administration
area by using the Admin button at the top," is confusing because there is a sub-category u...more...
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P1.0
22-May-10 |
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| 55 |
#44031: Shouldn't we delete the Custom Fields (About, News) and Custom Statusses (Statusses) as well?--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
11-Jul-10 |
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| 57 |
#44056: We’ll use the full name “News Articles” and the short name “news_articles,” as you see in Figure 4.1
Figure 4.1 only shows a blank "Create ...more...
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P2.0
12-Jul-10 |
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#45408: 'Publish Page Customization" does not have the options:
- Display URL Title Field
- Display Ping Buttons
It does have this:
- Display Ri...more...
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P2.0
19-Oct-10 |
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| 60 |
#44032: There is no reference to Figure 4.3 in the text.--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
11-Jul-10 |
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| 60 |
#46627: "....category URL already exists, simply append _politics (as an example) to the category name..." should read "... to the category title" oth...more...
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P2.0
21-Mar-11 |
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| 60 |
#47471: The following sentence references a 'Custom Fields' option, this is actually 'Channel Fields' in ExpressionEngine v2.2.2.
"Click Administra...more...
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P2.0
30-Aug-11 |
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| 75 |
#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.
...more...
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P2.0
27-Mar-11 |
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| 78 |
#44800: "...added the CSS that makes page look nice." Should read: "...added the CSS that makes the page look nice."--Michael Troy |
P2.0
01-Sep-10 |
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| 78 |
#45006: pdf page 78:...index template under the site group in ExpressionEngine.
The "site group" should be "news_articles group" since the link "R...more...
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P1.0
13-Sep-10 |
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| 79 |
#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)....more...
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P2.0
22-Nov-10 |
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| 88 |
#43545: In paragraph 4, instead of "page; template" read "page template" (remove the semicolon).--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
04-Jun-10 |
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| 88 |
#43546: On the second last line, for "use a underscored", read "use an underscored".--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
04-Jun-10 |
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| 89 |
#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 n...more...
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P2.0
19-Aug-10 |
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| 89 |
#43683: In the Related Articles code, the parameter "dynamic" is shown, set to "no." This is not mentioned in the text. It should be included in the d...more...
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P1.0
08-Jun-10 |
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| 90 |
#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 col...more...
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P1.0
08-Jun-10 |
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| 90 |
#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...more...
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P1.0
08-Jun-10 |
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| 91 |
#43530: The permalink is missing the closing paragraph tag in the Featured Top Story section code listing.--Christopher W. Boerger |
P1.0
02-Jun-10 |
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| 94 |
#44089: "The ability to comment on every
news article was enabled when we created the news_articles channel and
set its preferences in Chapter 4, Cr...more...
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P2.0
14-Jul-10 |
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| 96 |
#43124: The content pasted below is duplicated on the following page (p97):
Placed in the Channel Entries tag pair, it would look like this: Before...more...
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P1.0
06-May-10 |
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| 98 |
#44090: This is the first time "dynamic="no"" is used in a EE tag. The usage should be explained here.--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
14-Jul-10 |
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| 98 |
#43121: Upgrading to v2.02 fixed the above article_excerpt issues--Samuel Allen |
P1.0
06-May-10 |
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| 99 |
#44092: "To the right is a placeholder for a cartoon image." There is no placeholder for a cartoon image in the downloadable template-category.html file.--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
14-Jul-10 |
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| 100 |
#43173: In template-category-ee.html
line 21 reads class="{switch="lcol|mcol|rcol"}, while the CSS styles target IDs. So line 21 should be
id="{...more...
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P1.0
11-May-10 |
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| 101 |
#43123: The category page template in the downloadable code bundle has 4 recent articles using an lcol|rcol format instead of the 3 articles/columns l...more...
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P1.0
06-May-10 |
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| 103 |
#44107: "URI" must be changed to "URL". Also on pages 104, 106, 149.
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P2.0
15-Jul-10 |
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| 108 |
#47815: Searchbox code defaults to only open status. There is no mention of this so any keywords that are related to Top Story or Featured Top Story a...more...
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P2.0
25-Oct-11 |
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| 109 |
#44653: 'includes/masthead' template needs its type changing in the preferences from 'Static' to 'Web Page' to display correctly.--Sam Grady |
P2.0
19-Aug-10 |
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| 112 |
#46118: Link to EE templates - 404--Janet Beckley |
P2.0
26-Dec-10 |
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| 112 |
#44118: Invalid link in footnote: expressionengine.com/templates/source/category/feeds/--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
16-Jul-10 |
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| 114 |
#44483: At the end of the RSS template 'snippet', I think it should be "</p></a>" instead of "</a></p>".--aleks |
P2.0
09-Aug-10 |
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| 114 |
#44484: The list of categories in the feed's 'subject' element always ends with a ','.--aleks |
P2.0
09-Aug-10 |
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| 115 |
#44128: "We set the values of the search_in
parameter to “everywhere” to tell [...]"
The code snippet on page 115 doesn't show the search_in param...more...
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P2.0
17-Jul-10 |
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| 117 |
#43165: The text inside of the Field Instructions box in the screenshot says "Use this field to assign this article to a print edition of the newspape...more...
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P1.0
09-May-10 |
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| 123 |
#43230: For "The next step is to create a way relate each news article" read "The next step is to create a way *to* relate each news article"--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
13-May-10 |
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| 123 |
#43231: Second last para: "Click the red 'Add/Edit Custom Fields' text next to New Articles"... that should be News Articles--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
13-May-10 |
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| 127 |
#43232: The initial Stylesheet that we are told to load (EngineCityTimes > CSS > screen > core.css) lacks some of the styles that are found in Complet...more...
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P1.0
13-May-10 |
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| 127 |
#43233: On p127 we are asked to place this code in the print_edition page:
{embed="includes/document_header"
title="{exp:channel:entries channel=...more...
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P1.0
13-May-10 |
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| 131 |
#43266: Paragraph 4 reads: "You can also restrict an upload destination to a one or more member groups." Need to remove "a" from "to a one or more..."--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
16-May-10 |
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| 134 |
#43283: The book reads "From the Field Type list, choose Upload, and then choose Image from the File Type select list." There is no "Upload" option in...more...
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P1.0
17-May-10 |
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| 137 |
#43267: Para 5 reads: "If you have image uploaded in the File Man- ager, then let’s get started embedding." For "image", read "images".--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
16-May-10 |
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| 137 |
#44161: "Above the Article Body textarea is a formatting toolbar [...]"
This toolbar is not visible, as we haven't set the "Show Formatting Buttons...more...
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P2.0
19-Jul-10 |
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| 140 |
#43313: Paragraph 2 reads: "From the Field Type list, choose Upload". That should say "choose File".--Ralph Mason |
P1.0
19-May-10 |
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| 142 |
#43083: In Advanced Templating, can you include a section on using "Snippets", a new feature in EE2.x?
I have no idea how to use them and I thought...more...
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P1.0
04-May-10 |
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| 151 |
#44162: "In the downloaded directory of site template files, open letter_form.html,
copy the entire contents [...]"
The name of the file should be...more...
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P2.0
19-Jul-10 |
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| 151 |
#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 t...more...
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P1.0
09-Jun-10 |
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| 152 |
#44143: Last sentence, where it reads "give the name parameter the value of name and..." the value should actually be "title" instead of "name", as is...more...
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P2.0
18-Jul-10 |
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#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}
...more...
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P2.0
19-Jul-10 |
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| 158 |
#44842: "You also benefit from an easy to way to back up your templates..."
Should read:
"You also benefit from an easy way to back up your temp...more...
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P2.0
03-Sep-10 |
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| 160 |
#43524: I couldn't get the Save Template as File procedure to work until I checked the Docs, where it points out that, whatever folder you save templa...more...
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P1.0
01-Jun-10 |
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| 165 |
#43698: In the Disabling Unneeded Queries section, the text says: "If we wanted to disable all six ..." -- this should be "five."--Brian Lokker |
P1.0
09-Jun-10 |
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| 166 |
#43525: Instead of looking for page_cache directory in the system folder, look in
system > expressionengine > cache
(text doesn't mention the expre...more...
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P1.0
02-Jun-10 |
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| 177 |
#44206: The link h t t p : / /eequickstartguide.com/downloads/first_timer.zip does not work.--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
21-Jul-10 |
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| 179 |
#44207: The link h t t p : //eequickstartguide.com/downloads/sample_module.zip does not work--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
21-Jul-10 |
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| 184 |
#44208: The link h t t p : //eequickstartguide.com/downloads/eeinsider.zip does not work--Luc Van Dyck |
P2.0
21-Jul-10 |
Stuff To Be Considered in the Next Edition
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| 0 |
#42277: There should be a chapter on how to upload from a local server to the main host server. Which parameters need to be changed within EE to make ...more...
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B2.0
08-Feb-10 |
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| 0 |
#42374: Two words.. Cheat Sheet!--Philip John Basile |
B3.0
25-Feb-10 |
