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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - adding Smarty parameters to the template


Let us say you have added the tag {last_modified_by} to your template. However, you do not like the ID of the user, and you would like the username or his full name to be displayed instead of the user ID.

  1. 1. In the admin console, select your template for edit (Layout | Templates | My first template).

  2. 2. Add the {last_modified_by} tag with the format parameter, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on Apply and then click on the magnifying glass icon in the top-right corner of the admin console to see the result of your template changes.

What just happened?

You have added a tag {last_modified_by} to the template in order to display the name of the user who made the last modification to the page. Normally, if you do not say anything else, the ID of the user is displayed at the place where the tag is added. By adding a format parameter to the tag, you can now control what exactly should be shown.

As templates in CMS Made Simple...