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Creating Concrete5 Themes

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Creating Concrete5 Themes

Overview of this book

Creating a concrete5 theme isn't complicated if there’s already a HTML document. There are only very few PHP functions you’ll have to add, but those are powerful and give you a lot of freedom. As you’ll learn to create mobile ready themes, you’ll start to see that there’s almost no limit in what you can do."Creating Concrete5 Themes" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of examples that will teach you how to create powerful concrete5 themes, change the look of content block elements, and even make your site ready for mobile devices."Creating Concrete5 Themes" starts with a few words about the editing concept and architecture of concrete5 and then continues with the creation of a basic theme which gets extended with more and more elements until the theme is mobile ready.You will learn where to find the information necessary to get your own concrete5 site and then get a quick introduction to understand the idea of the in-site editing concept. We’ll then create a theme which is extended with features and more details as we progress. You’ll also see some examples to show you the process of overriding elements from the core without losing the ability to upgrade concrete5 in the future. Once we’ve customized every element in concrete5 to build a complete theme, we’ll have a look at responsive techniques to make your site ready for small screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets.  
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Creating concrete5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Overriding block templates


Before we start creating our own block templates, we want to look at the files we'll either find or create. Knowing where to look for the right template is a good start, especially for experienced PHP programmers, as most of the templates are rather easy to read and don't need a lot of explanation once you've found them.

Let's start by looking at the following directory structure:

The first directory /blocks is located in the root of your site and might contain custom blocks you've created yourself or installed manually. One level below, in the concrete directory, you can see some blocks available in the concrete5 core. As mentioned before, never change a file underneath the /concrete directory, as this is part of the core.

When working with a block template, it's important to understand that you can override the core elements in concrete5. What does this mean?

Let's start with a simple example:

Copy the view.php file from /concrete/blocks/content to /blocks/content...