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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 took a look at how to adapt the channel functionality of ExpressionEngine to a photo gallery. The lack of a formal photo-gallery module can make ExpressionEngine seem less functional. However, as you can quite clearly see, the standard channel functionality is more than adequate for the task, and indeed allows for a lot more flexibility than a separate photo gallery module might offer — with unlimited custom fields, a multitude of ways that you can organize photos within your channel (using categories and/or status groups), and with no restriction on how you can build your templates, the sky is the limit.

This chapter wraps up the step-by-step introduction to ExpressionEngine. By now, you should be fairly comfortable with the basics of ExpressionEngine — channels, templates, tags, custom fields, categories, status groups, and so on. In the next chapter, you will be introduced to some more specialized first party modules that you may find useful.