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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned all about member functionality in ExpressionEngine, including the built-in member control panel. You also looked at setting up new member groups and customizing the administrative control panel for different member groups (that have control panel access). Finally, you looked at how to use conditional statements in your templates in order to make membership attractive to visitors.

The key points to remember after working through this chapter are as follows:

  • You can control what all members can or cannot do in the Member | Preferences screens. You can also make exceptions on a member group basis in Members | Member Groups. So, for example, you can require that all comments are moderated, but make an exception for members in a specific group.

  • Be cautious about who you assign to the Super Admins member group. If someone needs control panel access, but does not need access to everything in the control panel, it is a better practice to set up a new member group...