I put together some notes about Viget’s default ExpressionEngine build in the hopes that you can find some tips and tricks in all of my nonsense.
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{if {exp:is_ajax} == "true"}
OH YEAAAH
{if:else}
OH NOOO
{/if}You can find the plugin on Devot:ee and GitHub.
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";s:7:"website";s:75:"http://www.viget.com/inspire/html5-elements-irresponsible-choice-right-now/";}i:3;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:25:"A Couple of Presentations";s:4:"slug";s:25:"a-couple-of-presentations";s:2:"id";s:2:"65";s:10:"typeHandle";s:4:"blog";s:4:"body";s:627:"I’ve given a couple of presentations recently, so I thought I would share them.
An internal presentation given to all of Viget to give an overview of EE and why I love it.
A presentation given to Clarksburg High School students with a supporting demo site to introduce them to some HTML5 and CSS3 features.
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";s:7:"website";s:51:"http://www.viget.com/inspire/css-generated-content/";}i:5;a:6:{s:5:"title";s:45:"So You Want to Use .htaccess files with MAMP?";s:4:"slug";s:28:"use-htaccess-files-with-mamp";s:2:"id";s:2:"67";s:10:"typeHandle";s:4:"blog";s:4:"body";s:1014:"Well, this was easy in the older version of MAMP that I had. You would just drop them in place, and they worked. I was having a problem with something, so I thought maybe there was an updated version of MAMP that would solve the problem. Sure enough, there was. So I installed it and went along my way. Then, I went back to the local version of my site, and it was completely busted.
I finally tracked it down to .htaccess files being ignored. So I opened up my http.conf file and went down to line 378, and sure enough this is what I saw:
<Directory />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>In the older version of MAMP that I had, the default for this value was All. In order to get .htaccess files working in the new version, I just had to change None to All, restart the server, and everything worked normally. Just thought I would share in case anyone else runs into this problem.
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So I made a plugin that gives you access to everything in the $config array without having to use PHP.
{exp:config:vars value="base_path"}To see all possible values, just pass in “all”:
{exp:config:vars value="all"}You can download from GitHub or Devot-ee. As always, let me know if you run into any issues.
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