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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

Designing your membership


ExpressionEngine allows two types of members:

  1. 1. Members who can log in to your website, but not into the administrative control panel. These members can see any content that you have coded in your templates as member-only as well as perform any actions that you have set to require membership (such as post comments).

  2. 2. Members who can log into your website and also the administrative control panel. Depending on the permissions you give these members, they may be able to complete tasks such as creating or modifying channel content, creating or modifying templates, or changing global settings.

If you have an ExpressionEngine-powered website, allowing members is not a requirement. If you do not intend to support members on your website, it is recommended to turn off new member registrations completely (the first option under Members | Preferences in the main menu).

Membership in ExpressionEngine is based on member groups, which are what determine the permissions...