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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

Challenges


These challenges are designed to stretch your knowledge and get you to work hands-on with ExpressionEngine. The answers will not necessarily be found within the chapter, but with the knowledge gained from the chapter, plus the ExpressionEngine documentation, you should have all the tools you need at your disposal to figure them out.

Since the photo gallery uses the same tools as all the other sections of your website, these exercises are not so much specific to photo galleries, but are a good reminder of the techniques learnt in previous chapters.

  1. 1. The main page of the photo gallery works great when there are only a handful of photos. However, over time, you could end up with hundreds and hundreds of photos in your channel, all of which would get displayed on your main page. Change the main page so that it limits the number of photos that are displayed and randomizes which photos are shown.

  2. 2. ExpressionEngine has the ability to track how many times a channel entry has been viewed...