ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide

✍ Scribed by Ryan Irelan

• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, noted expert Ryan Irelan walks you through creating an online news site, Engine City Times. You'll get hands-on experience working with dynamic content, categories, an RSS feed, site search, and more as you build your news site. You'll further improve your ExpressionEngine skills with advanced techniques for creating powerful and manageable templates, effectively managing site files and assets, and optimizing your ExpressionEngine website to handle thousands of visitors. Go beyond the native ExpressionEngine functionality and customize the system through the use of add-ons. You'll discover how add-ons can help you build better websites, and you'll also build your own add-ons from scratch. Whether you're a web designer, web developer, or web master, this book will get you up to speed quickly building sites with ExpressionEngine.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Foreword......Page 9
What's New in ExpressionEngine 2......Page 11
What's in This Book?......Page 12
How to Read This Book......Page 13
Online Resources......Page 14
Getting Started with ExpressionEngine......Page 15
Evaluating Hosting......Page 16
Getting the Software......Page 18
Installing ExpressionEngine......Page 19
Exploring the ExpressionEngine Directories and Files......Page 22
Touring the Control Panel......Page 24
What We Learned......Page 29
Building Our First Template......Page 31
Dissecting ExpressionEngine URLs......Page 36
Displaying Dynamic Content......Page 37
Working with ExpressionEngine Variables......Page 38
Bringing Life to Templates with ExpressionEngine Tags......Page 40
What We Learned......Page 46
Building Our First ExpressionEngine Site......Page 47
What We're Building......Page 48
Engine City Times Home Page......Page 49
Moving Forward......Page 51
Setting the Preferences......Page 53
Cleaning Up the Default Site......Page 54
Representing the Content......Page 55
Controlling Content with Custom Statuses......Page 64
Working with Categories......Page 67
Creating Authors and Members......Page 70
What We Learned......Page 74
Building Out the Home Page......Page 76
Displaying the Categories......Page 87
Embedding Reusable Code......Page 89
Building Out the Article Template......Page 92
Lighting Up the Category Template......Page 99
What We Learned......Page 102
Adding a Static Page......Page 103
Lighting Up the Navigation......Page 106
Cleaning Up Using Conditionals......Page 109
Creating an RSS Feed......Page 112
Adding Search Functionality......Page 114
What We Learned......Page 117
Digging In......Page 119
Creating Relationships Between Entries......Page 120
Building Entry Relationships......Page 121
Setting Up Related Entries......Page 123
Writing Related Entries Template Code......Page 125
What We Learned......Page 127
Exploring the File Manager......Page 129
Creating and Managing Upload Destinations......Page 131
Editing Image Files......Page 135
Embedding Images in Entries......Page 137
Adding Files to Entries......Page 138
What We Learned......Page 141
A More Powerful Channel Entries Tag......Page 142
Writing Custom MySQL Queries......Page 147
Adding Content Outside of the Control Panel......Page 150
Sharing Data Between Templates......Page 156
Edit Templates Anywhere......Page 158
What We Learned......Page 160
Setting Permissions and Establishing a Baseline......Page 161
Optimizing with Four Types of Caching......Page 162
Disabling Unneeded Queries......Page 168
Optimizing for High Traffic......Page 169
What We Learned......Page 171
Exploring the Different Types of Add-Ons......Page 173
The Add-on Developer Community......Page 184
C......Page 187
E......Page 188
H......Page 189
N......Page 190
S......Page 191
T......Page 192
Y......Page 193