A simple trick to set formatting of fields easily in SAEF →

Field formatting in Stand-alone entry form in ExpressionEngine has always been pain for me. Especially in Stand-alone edit form.
I rarely use the default {custom_fields} tag as I prefer to stylize each field differently, so the only solution to give proper formattion to fields was adding
<input type=“hidden” name=”{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name=‘train_date_start’ which=‘format’}” value=“none” />
However, I’ve discovered much simplier way!

Make OpenX properly display UTF-8 characters →

Upon installing OpenX, I realized that it does not display properly some UTF-8 charactes, such as Russian ‘И’ and ‘ш’.
The solution is to place SET NAMES ‘utf8’ in following places:

jQuery ajax not working in IE →

I was trying lo load the remote page via jQuery load() function. In Firefox, everything worked perfectly, but Internet Explorer returned just nothing. The request was sent, but the function (as well as other jQuery ajax functions - I tried) returned just parsererror.
After spending several hours googling trying different thing, I found that solution was very simple…

Gallery select extension for FieldFrame →

This FieldFrame-based extension allows the admin to select one or several gallery categories that will be linked to the entry.

Pupulating relationship field in stand-alone edit form →

I’ve extended capabilities of Solspace Form_Helper plugin.
Now you can easily manipulate your custom relationship fields in ExpressionEngine stand-alone edit form.
Please note that you need the Form Helper plugin.
Currently only ‘weblog’ type of relationship is supported.

Buddies plugin - easy friendship management for EE →

This plugin enables users to have buddies/friends/followers just like in many popular social networks and blogging systems.
The users are able to add/remove others as their friends. The lists of friends added by user and also who added him can be displayed.
Also, you can have “enemies” along with friends - for fun or for something useful.
The plugin is using standard database table, so it’s 100% compatible with Buddies/Blocked list that can be found under Personal messages in user’s Control Panel.

Title generator →

If you occasionally didn’t provide title for the entry you create, it can be automatically set to category name of the entry.

Entry rating: multiple ratings →

This is a modification of Entry rating module by Oliver Heine that allows to have multiple ratings per entry - for example, if you want to enable users to rate entry by several criterias

Get similar entries (useful for catalogs etc.) →

On a single-entry page, it is nice when you can display links to “similar entries”.
For example, I have a catalogue of cars for sale and when a user views the car??™s page I want to show him links to several cars of the same type sold for the same price.
So here we have a plugin!

Portfolio →

I specialize in ExpressionEngine - creating custom extensions as well as ready-to-go sites.

There are 3 main places where you can see my work:

1. This website smile
2. Weblancer
3. Elance

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Intuitive into ExpressionEngine →

Simplifying mathematical operations in EE →

I wrote a small plugin that enables the usage of basic mathematical (arithmetic) operations (e.g. + - * / )

It can be useful especially in conjunction with conditional statements.