File Type Templates Module
Modules
It is a little bit hard to explain what this module is meant for. Perhaps I start by telling the story of how this module came about.
Once upon a time a client asked for a solution to publish their own uploaded FLV videos in news entries. They are no HTML-experts so it was supposed to be an easy solution.
I added a custom File-Upload field to the weblog for them and put a conditional into the entry-template that would embed a FLV-Player if a file was present.
The next day they concretized their requirements. What they actually meant was that they wanted to be able to post an arbitrary number of video clips per entry and position them wherever in the body text they saw fit, just like they do with images now.
This gave me quite a headache at first but on second thought, unknowingly, they actually provided a good approach in their request: Just like with images.
When you upload a browser-supported image type and choose Embedded in Entry, Expression Engine provides the necessary HTML-code to display it, namely an <img>-tag.
When you upload anything else and choose Embedded in Entry, Expression Engine provides just a link to the file.
Hence I quickly wrote a plugin that checks the text for the existence of any links to FLV-files and replaces them with the code needed to embed a flash-player which loads the file. I told them to just upload the FLV-files and place the resulting link-codes where the videos are supposed to appear inside the text and they lived happily ever after.
MP3 Info
Plugins
This plugin can be used to extract header information from a given mp3-file.
It does NOT read ID3-tags, just the standard header according to the MP3 specification plus the filesize in human-readable format.
I used it mainly to gather information for a podcast-feed without the need of custom fields where the publisher has to enter things like length etc.
Henrietta
Please bear with me not answering any support requests on short notice since there are endlessly much more important things in life right now.
AJAX Linktracker
Modules
This module allows you to track clicks on arbitrary links. You can use it to track file-downloads, outgoing links or even your internal navigation links.
All you got to do is to add an unique id-attribute to any link you want to be tracked.
The module utilizes javascript and a XMLHttpRequest to count the clicks. This has the disadvantage that you will not capture clicks by people who have javascript disabled . But on the other hand I see a lot of benefits. It uses no redirects which makes it pretty unobtrusive, your links look like always and there is no rank denial. It’s easy to apply to virtually any link on-the-fly. And it’s not triggered by crawlers but only by people behind browsers.
Simple Tags
Extensions
Modules
This extension-/module-combination is intended for tagging weblog entries.
Simple as in basic.
There really are no bells & whistles or shiny interfaces. Any custom field can be designated as a field containing comma-separated tags. When posting, updating or deleting an entry the tagging database table is updated accordingly.
If you happen to already have such a field, e.g. used for <meta name="keywords"> or the like, you can also re-index all your existing entries without the need to update them bit by bit.
Tags as in informally assigning relevant keywords or phrases to entries and being able to use this information to access them.
This version only supports tagging by the authors, not by your visitors. Currently there are no plans to change this.
Bad News:
Simple Tags 1.0 will no longer be distributed. I will still answer support-related questions here in the comments but there will be no new functionality or bugfixes.Good News:
Simple Tags 1.6 will soon be released. It will have several new output features (recent tags, related tags, related entries) as well as improvements to existing features and internal coding.
That will be the version that’ll be ported to EE 2.0 once the time is ripe.