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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

Setting up FancyBox


You can download the latest version of FancyBox directly from http://fancybox.net/, or a copy of the latest version is included in the code for this chapter at either http://packtpub.com/support or http://www.leonardmurphy.com/book2/chapter7.

  1. 1. First, download FancyBox and extract all the files from the compressed directory into a directory on your computer.

  2. 2. Once extracted, you should see a directory called fancybox, complete with a number of images, JavaScript files (.js), and a CSS file. Upload this entire directory to the root of your website. Note that for the purposes of this chapter, you do not need any of the example files that ship with FancyBox.

  3. 3. Next, if you are removing the index.php from your ExpressionEngine URLs using the exclude method, you will have to add this new directory to your .htaccess file (otherwise it will be treated as an ExpressionEngine template group, rendering it inaccessible). Open .htaccess and add FancyBox to the end of the list of...