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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

Upgrading ExpressionEngine


EllisLab is always working on new versions of ExpressionEngine. These versions are often packed full of new features as well as security updates and bug fixes.

Note

Occasionally, EllisLab will put a price on a new feature (such as the discussion forum). However, the prices are very fair, and reflect the cost of development and support. Doing this keeps the cost of ExpressionEngine itself lower for those users who have no interest in the new feature.

There are two types of releases that ExpressionEngine goes through:

  • A new build contains bug fixes or minor updates. It is generally not necessary to upgrade to a new build unless it contains a bug fix that you have been waiting for. Builds are numbered by date, and you can see what build you have in the footer of any page in the control panel.

  • A new version contains new features and improvements to existing functionality. A new version will include all the bug fixes and minor updates of any intermittent builds. Versions...