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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 6. Members

You have now used ExpressionEngine to build a fully-functional website for Ed & Eg. So far, however, you are the only one who has logged into ExpressionEngine on your website and the only one who has been making any changes. Now is a good time to explore the member functionality of ExpressionEngine.

The Freelancer license does not include member management, so this chapter will not apply. For a complete list of what the Freelancer license includes, please see http://expressionengine.com/overview/pricing.

In this chapter, you will:

  • Allow visitors to register on your website and see what they see

  • Create a member group for Ed & Eg, so they can log into the control panel and publish and edit entries (but not edit template code or change administrative options like you can)

  • Use conditional statements to create content that only members can see

First, however, it makes sense to review how membership management works in ExpressionEngine and what all your options are.