I could not for the life of me figure out why NO ONE had responded to any of our posts lately, when it occured to me that I should test out the comment form. Voila! It turns out our recent update to the latest version of Expression Engine killed our anti-spam plugin, which in turn, killed our comment form.
It should all be up and running now, so comment away to your heart’s content.
Today I was tasked with added pagination to search results for an Expression Engine site. Piece of cake! Or so I thought.
Ellis Labs, the creators of Expression Engine, did an amazing job with the documentation for their other project CodeIgniter, but I find the Expression Engine docs to be somewhat lacking. For example, there is no mention of how to set the number of search results to return on search results page. I believe the default is 50, but if that’s more than you want, which was the case today, there is no explanation (that I could find), in the documentation, wiki or forums for how to achieve this. Please point it out if you can find it.
After a little digging into the search class I managed to find the answer, and I thought I’d share it here. Quite simply, all you need to do is add a hidden field to the search form to set the post variable “RES” to the number of results you want.
eg. <input type="hidden" name="RES" value="25"> - will return 25 results per page.
Hope this helps!
Isn’t it great that something so simple and beautiful as words can make such a lovely little art piece.
This image was created using Wordle – I noticed it on a clients site and just thought it was so pretty I had to try it out for The Blog Studio domain.
Wordle generates word clouds based on words you enter, url’s or tags through del.i.cio.us.
As I sit here at my desk, trying to get a start on my day, I can’t help noticing I still haven’t introduced myself here at The Blog Studio. So, before I can find a reason to procrastinate, my name is Adam Thody and I’ll heading up the TBS development “department”.
A little about me – I’ve been in the development business for a decade now. I started designing and developing websites as a teenager, and by the end of high school I was building training applications for Fortune 500 companies. Needless to say, that didn’t come without countless hours of research, training, practice, and an undying passion for the craft. I’m hot-blooded about what I do and it shows.
I’ve always had an eye for art, and enjoy designing websites, but it has become rather clear over the years that I get a lot more pleasure from analyzing thousands of lines of code, looking for inefficiencies, and honing endlessly for optimal performance. Sick, I know.
Outside of work hours, I love spending time with my lovely new wife, our doofus dog JP, and climbing rocks whenever my childhood sporting injuries will allow.
That’s about as long as I can bare talking about myself, so I’ll just say I’m extremely excited to be working here at The Blog Studio, and I can’t wait to get started on all your fascinating projects.
The guy starts working at The Blog Studio, and suddenly he’s blogging again. Good to see we’re a positive influence. Check it out.