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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5. concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin. concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – creating a protected website


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Dashboard and then Full Sitemap.

  2. Create a new page named VIP.

  3. Click on the new page and select Set Permissions.

  4. Uncheck the checkbox next to Guest in Who can view this page.

  5. Tick the checkbox next to Members in Who can view this page.

  6. Click on Save.

What just happened?

The sitemap should look similar to the following screenshot:

We removed the guests' right to access our VIP page but allowed members to access it. When you log out, you won't see the VIP page anymore:

You can send users belonging to the members group to the same login page you're using when you want to edit your website: http://localhost/login/. Use the member account you've created earlier to log in and a new page will be visible:

That's everything you need to do if you want to protect a page. Every block you place in such a page won't be accessible to users who aren't logged in. A secret guestbook or a personal poem—you decide who gets access...