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Form submission summaries in ProForm

May 17, 2012

Tags: proform, template, ee

I've just added a new parameter to ProForm to enable form submission summaries, in response to a client request last night.

Check it out:

last_step_summary="yes"

The last_step_summary parameter turns on a special mode for the last step of a multistep form, where all fields are returned by the {fields} loop. This can be used to present a summary

ProForm 1.0 Released!

April 12, 2012

Tags: none

Hello, lovely ExpressionEngine community!

I am very happy to announce the final release of ProForm 1.0.

This represents a major milestone for ProForm, and I think you'll really like the improvements I've made. This new release features an improved and much cleaner UI, multistep form support, a single template tag to render forms automatically, and even better support for 100% custom form markup. This is the biggest release for the module to date - and a lot

Newsletter Online

March 11, 2012

Tags: site, ee, proform

The MetaSushi EE Add-ons Newsletter is now available. To stay up to date with the latest ExpressionEngine add-on news from MetaSushi, be sure to subscribe today (very low volume).

ProForm Extensions - Sending an SMS Notification

February 26, 2012

Tags: extensions, proform, ee, add-on development, twilio

ProForm has an extensive list of available hooks with which you can extend it's behavior by writing fairly simple custom extensions. You can find a complete list and description of each hook on the ProForm Extension documentation page.

In this post, I'm going to walk you through a simple custom notification extension for ProForm, built using one of these hooks.<

AjaxPublish + Illuminated + Publish Bar

February 04, 2012

Tags: ee, extensions, publish

I've been playing with a new extension I'm calling AJaxPublish. It basically hooks into the publish page to prevent the need for a full page reload when saving an entry.

By combining this with my field type Illuminated and the awesome Publish Bar extension, I've been able to put together a combination that almost feels like editing in a local editor

RSS Fixed

February 04, 2012

Tags: site

Looks like the RSS feed was broken there. Should be all fixed now!

New field type - Illuminated

January 19, 2012

Tags: ee, fieldtypes

Tired of struggling with a WYSIWYG editor to edit content on your site? Speak HTML? Then Illuminated is for you - a high quality editing surface that supports full syntax highlighting for HTML and JavaScript code - right in your publish page.

Illuminated is the anti-WYSIWYG editor - Illuminate your content and get work done. <

Easy custom plugins

January 11, 2012

Tags: ee, add-on development, plugins

Edit: I've recently (1/17/2011) given a short talk on this at the @TwinCitiesEE user group. Slides from that talk are here. Read on for more detailed discussion of the topic.

Imagine a scenario where you have some special data that you wish to query out of either built in ExpressionEngine tables or out of custom tables

Channel file handling for ExpressionEngine

January 06, 2012

Tags: ee, files

I've been thinking about the way that file handling is done in ExpressionEngine 2.0 lately. I think I've come up with a design that would be a lot easier to work with and provide a lot of additional options beyond what we have right now. Basically the idea boils down to this:

Files should be stored as channel entries.

Actually, the idea is pretty obvious just from looking at the UI of

New metasushi.com add-on website launched!

December 31, 2011

Tags: site, metasushi

Just in time for the new year, I'm finally launching the all new metasushi.com!

I'm planning a series of blog posts with tutorial content on ExpressionEngine as well as my own add-ons. Stay tuned!