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Templating in EE vs. Craft CMS.

Here are a few common tasks you might do in your templates, as they would be written in ExpressionEngine vs. Craft CMS.

Table of Contents

1. Comments
2. Conditionals
3. Loops
4. Looping Through Entries

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<?php
namespace foo\bar;

use yii\log\Target;

/**
 * Define a LogTarget class that only collects the log messages, but never flushes them out anywhere
 */
class LogTarget extends Target
{

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// -------------------------------------------
//  Include the Sheet resources in PHP
// -------------------------------------------

if (! class_exists('Assets_helper'))
{
	require PATH_THIRD.'assets/helper.php';
}

$assets_helper = new Assets_helper;

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<?php

/**
 * Get Upload Preferences (Cross-compatible between ExpressionEngine 2.0 and 2.4)
 * @param  int $group_id Member group ID specified when returning allowed upload directories only for that member group
 * @param  int $id       Specific ID of upload destination to return
 * @return array         Result array of DB object, possibly merged with custom file upload settings (if on EE 2.4+)
 */
function get_upload_preferences($group_id = NULL, $id = NULL)
{

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<?php

// -- modules/Module.php --

namespace modules;

use Craft;
use craft\base\Element;
use craft\elements\Entry;
use craft\events\RegisterPreviewTargetsEvent;

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<?php

// Get the entry
$entry = craft()->entries->getEntryById(100);

// Convert the existing data to what it would look like in POST
$matrixData = array();

foreach ($entry->matrixField as $block)
{

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After clicking Changes > Install Terminal Utility…, add this to ~/.gitconfig:


[diff]
    tool = changes-app

[difftool "changes-app"]
    cmd = /usr/bin/chdiff $LOCAL $REMOTE

[difftool]

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<?php if (! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');


require_once PATH_THIRD.'matrix/config.php';


/**
 * Wygwam Custom Toolbar Button
 *
 * This is a sample extension that would add a plugin to Wygwam’s extraPlugins setting,

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Test Info

• Hardware: 2016 MacBook Pro w/ 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
• MAMP Pro 4.1
• Nginx 1.11.4
• MySQL 5.6.34
• PHP 5.6.28 / 7.1.0 (CGI mode, OPcache enabled)
• ApacheBench 2.3
• Craft CMS 2.6.2958 / 3.0.0-beta.1