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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

Chapter 5. Creating a Fully-Equipped Channel

So far you have used ExpressionEngine to create a website where you can easily edit the content through the Publish screen in ExpressionEngine and where it is easy to add new pages, should you wish to.

In this chapter, you are going to take your ExpressionEngine-powered (but still static) website and enhance it to make it interactive. The Frequently Asked Questions page is an ideal candidate for this. Currently, there are only two questions on the page. However, Ed & Eg would like to start posting new questions and answers regularly. The frequently updated content would encourage visitors to keep coming back to the site.

Although Ed & Eg is the example in this chapter, the concepts could easily be applied to any regularly updated content that you would want to post on your website; including a regular blog, book reviews, recipes, or products that you are selling. You will be:

  • Displaying multiple entries

  • Allowing visitors to browse entries...