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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

ExpressionEngine add-ons


Although not open source software, ExpressionEngine has many ways in which both EllisLab and the members of the ExpressionEngine community can add to it. ExpressionEngine 2 is built on CodeIgnitor — an open source PHP web application framework also by EllisLab. CodeIgnitor is a popular framework for PHP developers, allowing rapid development of PHP web applications. For ExpressionEngine users, this means that add-on developers have the ability to build more complex add-ons (even entire applications) for ExpressionEngine by using CodeIgnitor. It also means that there is a much larger base of developers who can build ExpressionEngine add-ons.

More developers building more and more complex add-ons for ExpressionEngine can only mean one thing. If there is something you need to do that is not supported natively, there is likely an add-on for it.

The add-on market has grown hugely in the last few years and there are now several companies that have either started or been...