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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6

By : Leonard Murphy
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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6

By: Leonard Murphy

Overview of this book

<p>ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich open-source content management system used by thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies to easily manage their websites. It is written in the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP, and built on the MySQL database server. This book is written for ExpressionEngine 1.6 users, although it will still be a good introduction for those using other versions.<br /><br />If you're eager to start creating websites with ExpressionEngine, this is your book. This book gives you clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take you from the basics of setting up ExpressionEngine to developing the skills you need to create professional ExpressionEngine websites to be reckoned with.<br /><br />This book will take you through the process of setting up a website with ExpressionEngine with the help of an example site. By creating a site for selling toast online, you will learn all the stages required for building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner.<br /><br />This book is aimed at beginners new to ExpressionEngine, but will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any task with confidence.<br /><br />Once you're set up with a basic installation of ExpressionEngine, you will move on to learn about creating and managing your content, customizing the look of your site, managing users and groups, allowing visitors to post comments and feedback, building an events calendar, and building a photo gallery. The book also covers the discussion forum module, the simple commerce module, and the wiki module as well as basics such as creating search-engine friendly URLs, 404 "page not found" pages, removing the index.php file for cleaner URLs and updating ExpressionEngine to the latest version.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Chapter 6. Members

We have now used ExpressionEngine to build a fairly functional but fictional website for our online toast-selling business. This far, however, we are the only ones who can log into ExpressionEngine and the only ones who have been making any changes. To make our website complete, we are going to explore the member functionality of ExpressionEngine.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Allow members of the public to register themselves for our site, and allow them to log in and out

  • Create a members only area of our website to give our members an incentive to join

  • Create an Editors member group, whose members will be able to access the control panel to publish and edit entries, but will not be able to edit template code or change administrative options

  • Set up a Stand-Alone Entry Form, which allows us to post to a weblog without even logging into the control panel

  • Create a mailing list that visitors can sign up for

Before we get started managing members, we will first walk through the basics...