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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

The Moblog module


So far, whenever you wanted to create content, you have had to log into the control panel and publish a new entry. The Moblog module provides a way to upload files to your website and create content directly from your Internet-enabled smart phone.

The basic concept involves setting up an e-mail address which ExpressionEngine can access. When you e-mail from your phone to the e-mail address, the content can either be turned into a channel entry, or attached files can be saved to an upload location without a channel entry being created (making it an easy way to upload files to your website without FTP). The module includes ways to prevent spam or other e-mails that might also be sent to the same e-mail address from being published to your site.

Unfortunately, the Moblog module can only add new content to text area custom fields. Since channels will often have other types of custom fields, does this mean that you cannot use the Moblog module? No. Take, for example, the Photos...