Avoiding CAPTCHA With ExpressionEngine

14 February 2012 in Tutorials by Eric Lamb

spam, snapcha, captcha

Let me start by saying straight out; I really dislike CAPTCHA (those annoying “verify the word” image things on forms). Personally, I consider CAPTCHA to be the Digital Rights Management (DRM) equivalent within web development. Just a nasty and heavy handed “solution” to spam prevention that hurts a project more than it helps.

A Better Way to FTP Your ExpressionEngine Site: Use Zip Files

17 December 2011 in Tutorials by Ryan Battles

php, database, ftp

How do you FTP files to and from your site? If you've ever tried to download an entire site, or upload the same, you know that it can take hours. Today I discovered how to do all this in around 10 minutes, and I didn't need to SSH into anything.

Importing ExpressionEngine Comments into Disqus

22 August 2011 in Tutorials by Ryan Battles

comments, disqus, importexport

Many people are deciding to use Disqus to handle ExpressionEngine comments. What happens when you already have been using EE comments, and want to move over to using Disqus? How do you import your old comments into Disqus from ExpressionEngine?

Building a Job Board with ExpressionEngine and Membrr

11 August 2011 in Tutorials by Ryan Battles

safecracker, membrr, registration

Over the past year or so I have helped build a couple of job boards with ExpressionEngine: Director-ee and Find Bacon. On both sites the tools were similar, and using ExpressionEngine plus the Membrr module to power the back-end made deployment quick and easy.

Member Fields or Channel Entries? How We Made Director-ee

07 July 2011 in Tutorials by Ryan Battles

safecracker, geotagger, membership

I have received this question more than once, so I thought it would be good to write up how we did the profiles on Director-ee, and why we chose that method.