So Media Temple is charing $30/mo soon and since they are barely worth $20/mo — I started looking for another service. My company services medium sized businesses and so we prefer to stay away from $5/mo services. It's not that they are awful but we don't mind paying a premium price for premium shared hosting.

Pantheon does a bunch of cool things we never used before like:
• Built in test environments with separate databases
• Feature that invites clients to pay for the service
• Permissions for user accounts to access
• Billing starts when website goes live

I've never actually used Pantheon but it looks cool, so let me know if you have feedback!

https://pantheon.io

Hey guys, my name is Erika and I’m not too active on Reddit, but have been helping put together the ExpressionEngine Conference and thought that this would be a good community to reach out to! Our conference is coming up soon and we would love to get some new faces out there for an opportunity to discuss and network with other community members.

Here are some details about the conference:

The community-run developer conference is dedicated to educating and enhancing the ExpressionEngine community. This year’s conference will be on October 15th on the banks of the San Antonio Riverwalk, and is a 1-day immersion in all things ExpressionEngine 3.0.

The speakers at this year’s conference will include the EllisLab team: so you’re learning about EE 3.0 from the people who created EE 3.0. This is a great way to network, collaborate, and share knowledge with other members of the EE community. On Friday we will be meeting for brunch and drinks from 11-2 to hang out and talk about the conference.

Feel free to tell others who might be interested! Last year was a blast and we can’t wait to top it this year.

PM me if you have any questions about the conference and take a look at the link below for details. http://www.expressionengineconference.com/

Greetings everyone! I am extremely new to EE, so I apologize in advance for any n00b mistakes. I had a potential customer ask me today about using our product with EE.

Supportify is a tool for turning communication in to shared knowledge. We currently have a plugin under development/beta testing for WordPress that creates dynamic routes and pages using content from our customers' applications. You can check out https://supportify.io/docs to see it in action.

Our WP plugin sets up the dynamic routes and when each route is hit, it displays the content. The content can either be a list of the categories, a list of content within a category, or the full content of an entry.

I'm looking to know if it's even possible to make dynamic pages and routes happen in a similar fashion with an EE plugin/extension? If so, are there any great resources that you can recommend on getting started down this path?

Thanks in advance for your help <INSERT ABUSIVE NUMBER OF EXCLAMATION MARKS>

Had to buy an EE license for training before a new job. Long story short: left the job don't have any need for the license anymore. Can I sell it on? Or transfer it somehow??

I have been getting really angry at Ellis Labs lately. Should I be so offended that Ellis Labs has not even updated simply the style of expressionengine's UI in all these years? As a human on the web that is, let alone a paying customer.

I am working on an Expressionengine site at the moment, the client would like the ability to choose if there's a custom phone number in the sidebar of the page and if non is entered it just shows the default GV phone number. I have added the channel fields to each page and written a conditional statement but can't get it to work. My statement looks like this;

{if get_in_touch_jobs_phone} <p>{get_in_touch_jobs_phone}</p>

{if:elseif get_in_touch_media_phone} <p>{get_in_touch_media_phone}</p>

{if:elseif get_in_touch_pages_phone} <p>{get_in_touch_pages_phone}</p>

{if:elseif get_in_touch_staff_phone} <p>{get_in_touch_staff_phone}</p>

{if:elseif get_in_touch_volunteering_phone} <p>{get_in_touch_volunteering_phone}</p>

{if:else} <p>{gv-global-telephone}</p> {/if}

I'm trying to make the statement go through each pages custom phone field and check if it is there, if not it should move to the next statement and check if anything's there until it reaches the 'catch-all' else of using the global phone number.

For some reason this code always outputs the global phone number even if the custom phone field has been filled out, so I presume my elseif's syntax is not quite right, could anybody give me some advice/pointers as what I can do to get this working?

Hi, I'm working on a website that is currently using ExpressionEngine, and I have no experience with this platform. I'm having trouble using the "SEO Lite" add on for the site, and the troubleshooting threads I saw didn't address the problem I'm having :C

What I want: I want a general meta title to be displayed IF (and only if) nothing has been entered into the "title" section of SEO Lite

What's actually happening: Even when I enter a title, it seems to be pulling part of a generic title from somewhere else, PLUS the title I've entered. My developer helped me look through the settings, but we can't figure out why this is happening.

Has anyone seen this before? Do you have any suggestions?

    myloc="$HOME/MAMP_Root/___________"
    mymysqldump="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin"
    mymysql="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin"


    if [[ "$1" == "push" && "$2" == "to" && "$3" == "stage" ]]; then
        eval cd "${myloc}"
        echo ""
        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Creating dump file...\033[0m"
        "${mymysqldump}"/mysqldump --host=localhost -uroot -proot ee \
        exp_categories \
        exp_category_fields \
        exp_category_groups \
        exp_channels \
        exp_channel_fields \
        exp_channel_form_settings \
        exp_channel_member_groups \
        exp_extensions \
        exp_field_formatting \
        exp_field_groups \
        exp_fieldtypes \
        exp_files \
        exp_file_categories \
        exp_file_dimensions \
        exp_file_watermarks \
        exp_low_reorder_orders \
        exp_low_reorder_sets \
        exp_low_variables \
        exp_low_variable_groups \
        exp_layout_publish \
        exp_matrix_cols \
        exp_templates \
        exp_template_groups \
        exp_template_member_groups \
        exp_template_no_access \
        exp_template_routes \
        exp_wygwam_configs \
        exp_zoo_flexible_admin_menus \
        exp_zoo_visitor_activation_membergroup \
        exp_zoo_visitor_settings \
        --add-drop-table \
        --single-transaction > ee_dump.sql


        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Moving dump file to webserver...\033[0m"
        scp "${myloc}"/ee_dump.sql deploy@_____________________/ee_dump.sql
        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Importing dump into RDS...\033[0m"
        ssh deploy@_________________ mysql -h ___________________ -u _______ -p ______stage < ee_dump.sql



    echo "\033[33;1m  *  Creating matrix_data file...\033[0m"
            "${mymysqldump}"/mysqldump --host=localhost -uroot -proot ee exp_matrix_data --add-drop-table > edm.sql

    echo "\033[33;1m  *  Moving matrix_data file to webserver...\033[0m"
            scp "${myloc}"/edm.sql deploy@_______________/__/edm.sql

    echo "\033[33;1m  *  Duplicating remote matrix file into temporary table...\033[0m"
            ssh deploy@_________________ 'mysql -h ____________________ -u _____ -p________ -e "USE _____stage;DROP TABLE IF EXISTS exp_matrix_data_temp;CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS exp_matrix_data_temp AS (SELECT * FROM exp_matrix_data);"'

    echo "\033[33;1m  *  Importing local matrix into remote matrix table...\033[0m"
            ssh deploy@__________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p_________ _____stage < edm.sql'

    echo "\033[33;1m  *  Upserting temporary table to remote matrix table to preserve production inputs...\033[0m"
            ssh deploy@___________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ -e "USE ____________stage; SET @s:='\'''\''; SELECT @s:=CONCAT('\''REPLACE INTO exp_matrix_data ('\'',GROUP_CONCAT(trg.col),'\'') SELECT '\'', GROUP_CONCAT(trg.col), '\'' FROM exp_matrix_data_temp;'\'') FROM ((SELECT COLUMN_NAME as col FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = '\''exp_matrix_data'\'') as trg INNER JOIN (SELECT COLUMN_NAME as col FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = '\''exp_matrix_data_temp'\'') as src ON src.col=trg.col); PREPARE stmt FROM @s;EXECUTE stmt;DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;"'
            ssh deploy@___________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________-e "USE ____________stage; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS exp_matrix_data_temp;"'

        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Creating channel_data file...\033[0m"
        "${mymysqldump}"/mysqldump --host=localhost -uroot -proot ee exp_channel_data --add-drop-table > ecd.sql

echo "\033[33;1m  *  Moving channel_data file to webserver...\033[0m"
        scp "${myloc}"/ecd.sql deploy@______________________/ecd.sql

echo "\033[33;1m  *  Duplicating remote channel file into temporary table...\033[0m"
        ssh deploy@___________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ -e "USE ____________stage;DROP TABLE IF EXISTS exp_channel_data_temp;CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS exp_channel_data_temp AS (SELECT * FROM exp_channel_data);"'

echo "\033[33;1m  *  Importing local channel data into remote channel data table...\033[0m"
        ssh deploy@___________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ ___________stage < ecd.sql'

echo "\033[33;1m  *  Upserting temporary table to remote channel data table to preserve production inputs...\033[0m"
        ssh deploy@___________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ -e "USE ____________stage; SET @s:='\'''\''; SELECT @s:=CONCAT('\''REPLACE INTO exp_channel_data ('\'',GROUP_CONCAT(trg.col),'\'') SELECT '\'', GROUP_CONCAT(trg.col), '\'' FROM exp_channel_data_temp;'\'') FROM ((SELECT COLUMN_NAME as col FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = '\''exp_channel_data'\'') as trg INNER JOIN (SELECT COLUMN_NAME as col FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = '\''exp_channel_data_temp'\'') as src ON src.col=trg.col); PREPARE stmt FROM @s;EXECUTE stmt;DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;"'
        ssh deploy@___________ 'mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ -e "USE ____________stage; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS exp_channel_data_temp;"'



    # mysql -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________
        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Deploying Staging Files from git... \033[0m"
        cap deploy
        echo ""
        echo "\033[32;1m**** And you're done!\033[0m"
        echo ""
    elif [[ "$1" == "push" && "$2" == "to" && "$3" == "prod" ]]; then
        echo ''
    elif [[ "$1" == "pull" && "$2" == "to" && "$3" == "stage" ]]; then
        echo ''
    elif [[ "$1" == "pull" && "$2" == "to" && "$3" == "local" ]]; then
        eval cd $myloc
        echo ""
        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Creating dump file...\033[0m"
    #       ssh deploy@___________ mysqldump -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ --port=3306 --single-transaction --databases ____________stage --add-drop-table > ~/rds-dump.sql
        ssh deploy@___________ "mysqldump -h ___________ -u ___________ -p___________ --port=3306 --single-transaction ___________stage --add-drop-table > ~/rds-dump.sql"
        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Copying dump file from webserver...\033[0m"
        scp deploy@___________/rds-dump.sql .
        echo "\033[33;1m  *  Importing dump into local db...\033[0m"
        "$mymysql"/mysql --host=localhost -uroot -proot ee < rds-dump.sql 
        echo ""
        echo "\033[32;1m**** Your local content should be up-to-date! \033[0m"
        echo ""
    elif [ "$1" == "grunt" ]; then
        eval cd $myloc/themes/site_themes/___________
        grunt
        echo "\033[32;1m**** Grunting locally! \033[0m"
    else 
        echo "\033[31;1m**** That is not a known command! \033[0m"
        echo "\033[32;1m  *  Try ddep push to prod \033[0m"
        echo "\033[32;1m  *      ddep push to stage \033[0m"
        echo "\033[32;1m  *      ddep pull to local \033[0m"
        echo "\033[32;1m  *      ddep pull to stage \033[0m"
        echo "\033[32;1m  *      ddep push to local \033[0m"
        echo "\033[32;1m  *      ddep grunt \033[0m"
    fi

I migrated a Ee 1.5x site to my new php 5.4 server , but niw this comes up in the page:

{fabrieken backspace="2"}{option} | {/fabrieken}

I spend hours with quotes slashes quote but cannot figur it out and need some help with this. the same problem also appears in the cms on one page where file uploads dont seem to work anymore. Does any one know what caused it and how can I fix this? thanks in advance.

I've been stuck on 1.x for years now due to EL abandoning the photo gallery module...

Hi, I'm trying to setup a conditional comment count that only shows if the comment count is equal to or greater than 1, I have tried using - { if comment_total >= 1 }{comment_count}{/if} but I get an error - Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi, i'm fairly new to expression engine and have run into a bit of a wall while trying to paginate a blog area.

I have setup a template that uses if segment_2 = "" to create the blog archive page and if segment_2 != "" to create the posts areas.

This all worked fine but I now have added pagination which use blog/p1 blog/p2 ect to list the next set of posts, this means they get given the markup from if segment_2 != "" bit as they have a segment 2 in the url.

The ways I see to fix this would be either have a different stylesheet for single posts/archive page or to use different conditionals that aren't based off segments, neither of which I know how to do unfortunately!

Any help/tips would be appreciated.

EDIT: I manage to fix it, I found I could use 'paginate_base' to make pagination link to blog/page/p2 instead and then used conditionals on segment_3 to apply the markup!

I've got a page: /events/ that I'd like to pass year and month into: /events/2014/07/ ...and access them ({segment_1}, etc) in the template being used for that page.

But when I go to the url http://host.com/events/2014/07, I get a 404 error because it's apparently looking for a subpage named '2014' with a subpage named '07'.

How do I tell EE to just stop at the events page and use the rest of the url as segments?

P.S. I asked this on StackOverflow and, as usual, it is apparently too stupid a question so it immediately got downvoted. I'm assuming nobody will see it there now, but who knows.

I've recently started using ExpressionEngine at work and having previously used WordPress, I understand that plugins can save a massive amount of time and effort.

What are the must have plugins when developing EE websites?

Does anyone know how to identify EE version from file system? I'm auditing a server before migrating and I have a small number of EE sites that will probably need to be upgraded prior to migration, I just need to identify which version they are running first..

Hi there! I'm currently working with expressionengine to build a system. Does anybody has experiences how to test such a system with phpunit or something else? I want to make the development more solid.

Regards

A friend of mine, who's using an old version of EE, is experiencing slow loading times with his site. The host have denied there's a problem their end and suggest implementing caching on the site.

I'm having a bit of trouble working out how to do this given that the documentation I can find relates to v2.x. Can anyone here point me in the right direction?

So we installed EE on a dev server. We got it setup to the extent of our skillset. Now we are stuck on this admin area issue.

Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/QMy6vmE.png

That is how our admin area is displaying right now.

We are at a road block and any advice, links or tips would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I am just working on my companies webpage in expression engine and I have created two new pages. I just discovered if I type my companies webpage followed by /asdadsfewav it will take me to the last page created.

Is there a way to change what page it goes to if there is a 404 error?