Freebie

Developer

Rein de Vries

3rd Party (Free)

18 downloads (last 90 days)

GNU General Public License v3

EE Version Support

  • ExpressionEngine 2
  • ExpressionEngine 3

Compatibility

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  • Updater
  • Multi Site Manager
  • Stand Alone Entry Form
  • Low Variables
  • Content Elements
  • Better Workflow
  • Matrix
  • Grid
  • Webservice
  • Publisher

Requirements

  • jQuery for the Control Panel

Add-On Type(s)

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Take control of your URLs — define segments that you want EE to ignore completely. Use 'freebie' segments to trigger template behavior, build dynamic archives inside Structure, or just build special URLs for analytics purposes. Freebie allows you to use segments in powerful, flexible ways without the hassle of dealing with strict URL parsing (like Structure's).

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Here’s a quick rundown of Freebie features — read the full docs here.


Define segments you want EE to ignore

If you set “preview” as a Freebie segment, EE will parse blog/entry-5/preview as if it was just blog/entry-5

Access parsed or original segments

Example URI: /blog/preview/post-5/comments/
Example setting: “preview|comments”

{segment_1} will return “blog,” and {segment_2} will return “post-5”, because these are the ‘true’ segments EE is parsing.
{freebie_1} will return “blog”, but {freebie_2} wil return “preview” — these are the original segments, saved as freebie variables.

Set a ‘break’ segment

Example URI: /blog/2010/12/5/comments/
Example break: “blog”

EE will parse this uri as blog, and give you the remaining segments as freebie_x variables. This is super-useful in Structure, when you want to use extra segments to achieve certain behavior, but don’t want Structure to choke when it tries to find corresponding pages.

Ignore numeric segments

Not for the faint of heart! This setting tells EE to stop parsing all segments that are strictly numeric, like “12”, “2010”, etc. This will break a lot of dynamic weblog functionality (like archives), but give you the flexibility you need to rebuild the functionality yourself, or even use it inside Structure.

Break on category URL indicator

If you set this option, Freebie will automatically ignore your category URL indicator and any segments past it.

Match any segment

Want to trigger “print” behavior no matter WHERE the /print/ segment is added? The {exp:freebie:any name=“segment_name”} tag will return either “true” or “false” when it matches any segment with the supplied name. This allows you to throw useful segments on the end of all your URIs without worrying about their position.

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Hooks Used

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  1. sessions_start

This entry was created July 30, 2010, 12:08 pm.
This entry was last updated March 5, 2018, 4:52 pm.

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6 Reviews:

Sneed's Feed & Seed 04.24.14

Sneed's Feed & Seed
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A must-have add-on for Structure sites.

Tony Geer 05.15.11

Tony Geer
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Brilliant addon with lots of creative uses from a great developer.

One thing to note – this won’t work with the include method of removing index.php if you plan on using a freebie segment as your first segment in the URL, you’ll have to use the exclude method instead.

Ryan Battles 03.11.11

Ryan Battles
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Great simple way to provide success messages for forms, and preview pages for entries using Structure.  The two addons are inseparable.

Chuck Norton 11.02.10

Chuck Norton
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This extension is so freaking powerful. 180 has essentially built a recent website around Structure/Freebie functionality.

Thanks for this Addon!!

Doug Avery 09.14.10

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I talked with Chad and we concluded that yes, LowSeg2Cat won’t work with Freebie – the matched segments are actually being removed from EE’s internal segment array.

Instead, try using category_id with the {freebie_x} variables:

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/categor

Chad Crowell 09.12.10

Chad Crowell
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Note: This disables Low segcat in some situations.  If you turn on “break on category indicator” so Structure won’t see the /category/blah segments, and try to use {segment_3_category_id} to get the cat_id of blah, it won’t work, that I can tell so far.