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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

Other ExpressionEngine modules


There are several other free modules that ExpressionEngine has which have not been covered here.

  • The Discussion Forum is a module written by EllisLab but sold separately from ExpressionEngine (although it requires ExpressionEngine to run). The module leverages ExpressionEngine's Member module features, but has its own templating system and is styled via separate CSS. The best example of a discussion forum in action is the ExpressionEngine support forums (at http://expressionengine.com/forums).

  • Simple Commerce allows you to mark posts in channel entries as being for sale. You can create a channel of items for sale, set the price for each item and then accept payments through PayPal. All payment information is transferred directly between the visitor and PayPal — at no point does your website or ExpressionEngine handle payment information. Although Simple Commerce is not a fully-fledged e-commerce module, for smaller websites that do not need the complexity...