ExpressionEngine Workflow

A presentation I gave at EECI2012 detailing how we develop ExpressionEngine projects with a distributed team. Details include how we setup EE for multiple environments and how we use Git to manage our builds.

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1. ExpressionEngine Workflow Noah Stokes
2. This is a raptor.
4. What do you mean by distributed?
5. What are some of the pitfalls of running EE distributed?
6. Git - The Secret Sauce
7. The Setup
8. EE in a Repo
9. Read Me 1. Create a database for the project 2. Import the contents of import-me.sql to the database 3. Modify the database credentials in sys/expressionengine/ config/database.php 4. Modify the configuration in sys/expressionengine/config/ config.php 5. Access the EE admin at http://<siteurl>/admin.php using: ! ! Username: admin ! ! Password: admin 6. Go to Deeploy Helper and adjust necessary EE settings 7. Dominate life!
10. Setup Your Paths $config['theme_folder_path'] = $config['tmpl_file_basepath'] = Setup a symlink to Projects dir
11. Create an $env
12. env.php
13. admin.php & index.php
14. config.php
15. database.php
16. index.sample.php config.sample.php database.sample.php Sample Files
17. .gitignore
18. Save Templates As Files
19. Work Flow
20. HTML First
21. Clone the Repo
22. Setup a Database
23. Setup MAMP
24. Remove .git files
25. Create a New Repository
26. Make a Commit
27. Integrate Our Templates
28. Example: /press/ /press/article/article-url-title
29. Example: /press/ /press/article-url-title
30. Example: {if segment_2 == ‘’} Press index goes here {if:else} Press article goes here, (where segment_2 is the url_title parameter for the entries call) {/if}
31. Commit, Commit, Commit
32. The first rule of databases is: everything is in the database once
33. EE Map + Channel - Custom Fields [ Field Type ] * Categories -------------------------------------------------------- + Home - Title Black [ Text Input ] - Title White [ Text Input } - Slideshow [ Matrix (Image, URL) ] - Handpicked Local Services [ Playa from Providers ] - From the Blog [ Playa from Blog ] - Special Offer [ Playa from Providers ]
34. Channels
35. Custom Fields
36. Categories, Snippets, Variables
37. {cat_id:category_name}
38. Staging
39. Production
40. Issues
41. Database Migrations Site Manager
42. Add Ons
43. Benefits
44. Questions?
45. Noah Stokes @motherfuton Thank You!