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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

Challenges


These challenges are designed to stretch your knowledge and get you to work hands on with ExpressionEngine. The answers will not necessarily be found within the chapter, but with the knowledge gained from the chapter, plus the ExpressionEngine documentation, you should have all the tools you need at your disposal to figure them out.

  1. 1. In this chapter, you created a template (site/index) and added code so that it displays the contents of the news channel. However, right now, it displays all the entries of the news channel. Can you figure out how to change it so that it only displays the most recent two entries, instead? Hint: You will need to use a parameter in the channel tag to accomplish this — the ExpressionEngine documentation, which you will refer to often as you build your website, will help you figure this out too.

  2. 2. By now, you should be familiar with posting entries in ExpressionEngine. To be sure, try posting a third entry to the news channel and verifying that the two...