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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2

By : Leonard Murphy
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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2

By: Leonard Murphy

Overview of this book

<p>ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system used by top designers and web professionals across the world to build and manage their websites. It is written in the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP, and built on the MySQL database server. Are you eager to start creating websites with ExpressionEngine?<br /><br />Written for ExpressionEngine version 2.1 and later, this book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of setting up ExpressionEngine to developing the skills you need to create ExpressionEngine websites to be reckoned with.<br /><br />You will begin with setting up a basic installation of ExpressionEngine. You will then learn how it works, before learning how to create and manage your website in ExpressionEngine. As you progress further into the book you will learn how to build an events calendar and how to build a photo gallery and before you know it, visitors to your website will be able to post comments, search your content, sign-up for a mailing list, and even send their friends an e-mail. As you consider the benefits of buying this book, you will learn how to manage members and member groups, how to optimize your website and avoid repetition, how to remove the index.php file for cleaner URLs, and how to take backups. At the end of the book, you will learn how to update ExpressionEngine to its latest version.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Solutions to Exercises

Backups and restores


ExpressionEngine is a database-driven application. So to back it up, you need to back up both the individual files on your web server and the database itself.

Backups

To back up ExpressionEngine, you need a tool such as phpMyAdmin. If your website is hosted by a website hosting provider, contact them and ask if phpMyAdmin or another tool is installed that will allow you to do MySQL database backups. If necessary, phpMyAdmin can be downloaded from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/. phpMyAdmin is included with local development environments, including WampServer, XAMPP, and MAMP, usually at an address such as http://localhost/phpmyadmin (all in lower-case).

  1. 1. The first step to doing a backup is to clear all the unnecessary data from the database (such as cached templates). Log in to the control panel and select Tools | Data | Clear Caching. Select All caches and click Submit.

  2. 2. Access the phpMyAdmin control panel.

  3. 3. On the left-hand side, select the ExpressionEngine database...