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ExpressionEngine Relationships and Related Entries

August 9th, 2010 • 10 comments

Update: @onebrightlight was kind enough to point me to YouTubEE which makes embedding YouTube vidoes much simpler, doing away with all the embed code that I had to use in both sets of templates.

Even after you’ve wrapped your head around the way ExpressionEngine works, it still takes a bit of effort to understand the way relationships work. Of course, the first place to start would be to have a look at the Relating Entries bit of documentation which does a fairly good job of explaining them. But if you want to see a real world example of developing a site that makes pretty neat use of related entries, read on.

Instead of rehashing what the documentation explains, I think the best way of learning is always by doing, so we’ll jump into the example right away. Just a note, the code being used is from ExpressionEngine 1.6.9, but it’s pretty simple to covert ExpressionEngine 1 code to ExpressionEngine 2 code. The concept behind relationships and related entries has not changed in ExpressionEngine 2.

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