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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

Assumptions


In order to keep the instructions in this book as simple as possible, it is assumed that your website is located at http://localhost/. If you are following along on a hosted website, your site will be located at an address such as http://www.yourdomain.com/. Wherever you see http://localhost/, substitute your actual website name.

In this chapter, it is also assumed that you are using WampServer, and therefore your website files are located in C:\wamp\www\. If you are using MAMP for Mac OS X, then the equivalent location might be /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/. If you are using XAMPP, the directory might be C:\xampp\htdocs. If you are using virtual hosts (such as VirtualHostX for Mac OS X) to allow more than one development website at a time, then the location of the files for the website will depend on the directory defined as the document root for that domain.