14 Mar 2013
Best Practices
truncate Revisited: Cleaner Summaries for HTML Content
An extras-style note about a stronger truncate helper derived from the DocLister summary logic, with better handling of HTML content and parser-like text.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
10 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Avoiding Duplicate Product URLs Across Multiple Categories
A catalog architecture note on handling products that appear in several categories without creating unnecessary duplicate URLs.
04 Mar 2013
Guides
Why DocLister Became the Natural Successor to Ditto and CatalogView
A historical extras article about the moment DocLister emerged as a cleaner and more scalable listing approach for Evolution CMS.
28 Feb 2013
Guides
Rendering a TV Row Only When the TV Has a Value
A neat manager-side pattern for putting conditional presentation directly into the TV configuration so templates stay cleaner and output only appears when the field is filled.
24 Feb 2013
Ecosystem
choiceTV: Reusing Existing TV Values or Adding a New One
An extras note about a custom TV input that combines a select field with the ability to add a new value on the fly.
22 Feb 2013
Best Practices
Why Strict URLs Can Break POST-Based Forms
A form-handling warning for legacy projects where URL normalization redirects interfere with POST data and silently break form processing.
21 Feb 2013
Best Practices
Understanding OnWebPagePrerender and Cached Output
A cache-debugging note for developers who expect OnWebPagePrerender changes to be frozen in the page cache but see output still changing on every request.
11 Feb 2013
Guides
Using jquery-timeago with Evolution CMS Dates
A lightweight frontend enhancement for showing relative publication times such as “5 minutes ago” using Evolution CMS date output and the jquery-timeago plugin.
07 Feb 2013
Guides
Passing Parameters into Chunks with parseChunk in Evolution CMS
A reusable parser pattern for avoiding dozens of one-off helper snippets when you only need to inject values into a chunk template.
02 Feb 2013
Best Practices
Why a Simple @SELECT TV Binding Can Trigger a 500 Error
A migration troubleshooting note for cases where a previously normal @SELECT TV suddenly starts failing after a hosting move.
01 Feb 2013
Ecosystem
TagSaver: Normalizing Tag Storage for Better Filtering
An extras spotlight on TagSaver and the broader idea of moving tag data into proper indexed tables instead of storing comma-separated values in one TV field.
31 Jan 2013
Guides
Setting a Default Value for a Date TV in Evolution CMS
A guide to the common “current date by default” problem for Date TVs and why naïve @EVAL attempts often fail.
27 Jan 2013
Guides
Using a Resource List TV and Returning a Real Link Label
A TV configuration guide for choosing resources efficiently in the manager while still outputting a proper link label instead of only the numeric resource ID.
23 Jan 2013
Guides
Auto-Filling an Empty TV from the Parent Resource
A manager-save pattern for inheriting a TV value from the parent resource when the child field is left empty.
21 Jan 2013
Best Practices
When Strict URLs Becomes a Performance Bottleneck
A performance cautionary note for large catalogs where URL normalization plugins can become unexpectedly expensive during page generation.
21 Jan 2013
Guides
Changing One TV Dynamically When Another TV Changes
A manager-side pattern for making one TV field react to another, useful when the second field depends on a section chosen in the first field.
15 Jan 2013
Best Practices
Giving phpThumb Preview Files Readable SEO-Friendly Names
A practical image-generation tweak for teams that want cache thumbnails to use readable filenames instead of opaque hashes.
13 Jan 2013
Best Practices
Understanding the index-ajax.php LFI Risk in Legacy Evolution CMS
A security-oriented legacy note on why index-ajax.php was risky, how local file inclusion could happen, and why inherited projects should review this area carefully.
10 Jan 2013
Best Practices
Keeping Evo-Style Friendly URLs When Aliases Are Missing
A URL strategy note for projects that want aliases where available but still fall back to numeric IDs, especially after importing older content.
04 Jan 2013
Best Practices
Fixing Strict URLs When Alias Replacements Touch the Wrong Links
A troubleshooting note for legacy Strict URLs behavior where broad regex replacement can accidentally rewrite unrelated links.