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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

Creating user-friendly URLs


Every ExpressionEngine page includes index.php in the address such as http://localhost/index.php/about or http://www.example.com/index.php/about.

Users of ExpressionEngine have mixed feelings regarding this. In general, websites with a lot of content almost always have URLs that are not easy to remember and type directly — often containing meaningless strings of characters and numbers that could be tracking any number of things. (Look at the URL next time you browse a Facebook photo album or an article on a news website). When compared to this, ExpressionEngine URLs are very user-friendly, even with the index.php.

Many users planning small websites want to keep their URLs user-friendly, so that people can type the page they want directly. In addition, some users feel that if the index.php doesn't have to be visible in the URL, then it should be hidden. You can see that http://localhost/index.php returns the same page as http://localhost/.

ExpressionEngine requires...