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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

Organizing your data with categories


Although you have created custom categories and assigned your entries to some of your categories, you haven't yet used categories to help visitors browse the FAQs. You will now do this, but first set ExpressionEngine to use category names rather than ID numbers in the URL. This means that instead of category browsing pages having a URL such as http://localhost/faqs/C8, the category URL will be more like http://localhost/faqs/category/getting_married

  1. 1. In the control panel, go to Admin, Channel Administration, and then Global Preferences.

  2. 2. Say Yes to using category URL titles in links. Leave the Category URL Indicator as category. (If you do change this, bear in mind that whatever word you use here becomes a reserved word and cannot be used as a template name).

  3. 3. While you are on this page, also select No to auto-assigning category parents and click on Submit. Later in the chapter, you will use categories to show visitors who are viewing one question...