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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

Allowing comments on your entries


Comments are one of the easiest ways for visitors to interact with your site. They are also an easy way to attract spammers, who will be glad to leave hundreds of comments linking to websites of dubious quality. Luckily, ExpressionEngine includes features designed to prevent abuse.

Preventing comment spam

  1. 1. Comment preferences are set on a per-channel basis, allowing you to have different preferences for different channels (although when you create a new channel, you can copy the preferences from an existing channel to make things simpler). Go to Admin | Channel Administration | Channels and select Edit Preferences for the FAQs channel.

  2. 2. Here are all the aspects of the channel that you can fine-tune, organized into expandable groups. The General Channel Preferences were set when you created the channel, and include the channel name and short name.

  3. 3. Click on Path Settings. The path settings are the URLs that are unique to this channel. When creating links...