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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

Creating member-only content


So far you have seen the options available to you in the control panel for different member groups. For members with control panel access, the options are very comprehensive — you can disable entire sections (such as template editing) or disable individual items within a section (such as which template groups can be edited or which fields on the Publish page are visible).

For members without control panel access, it is up to you how attractive you make the membership of your site, because any member-only feature has to be specifically coded that way in your templates. There are two ways you can restrict what non-members can see:

  1. 1. You can configure templates to not be viewable by certain member groups. If a person in an unauthorized member group attempts to access one of these templates, you can redirect them to a different template that says the content is for members only. From the Template Manager, where you would normally click to edit the template, click...