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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 8. Creating a Photo Gallery

Although ExpressionEngine 2 does not come with a built-in photo gallery module, it does have many features designed to make working with photos easier. In this chapter, you will create a photo gallery channel, use file manager to manage your photos, and use jQuery to display the photos on your website.

Note

This chapter uses the FancyBox jQuery plugin that you set up in the previous chapter. If you did not follow the previous chapter, please follow the instructions in Chapter 7, Creating a Calendar under Setting up FancyBox

Although this chapter focuses on building a tool for Ed & Eg to share their personal photos, the techniques in this chapter will be useful in any situation where you want to display images — whether personal photos, a portfolio of your work or items for sale.