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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 7. Creating a Calendar

Many organizations have events, and a calendar is a very visual way of indicating what is going on and when. The built-in ExpressionEngine calendar functionality is limited (for example, it does not allow recurring appointments). However, you can use it to display event titles with clickable links for more information.

Note

If a calendar is a key part of your website, you may be interested in checking out Solspace's calendar module (at the time of publication, it is not yet available for ExpressionEngine 2). http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/calendar/. The module contains support for more sophisticated calendar functionality such as recurring appointments.

In this chapter, you are going to use the built-in functionality of ExpressionEngine to build a simple events calendar that is easy to post to using the Publish page in the control panel. You will use the jQuery module to display more information when an event is clicked. Finally, you will also be introduced...