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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - 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

Summary


While there's a lot more you can extend in concrete5 by using a package, blocks and themes are the ones you'll most likely need on a daily basis when you work with concrete5. A package could contain controllers, single pages, events, and a lot more to extend almost anything you want without touching the core. You haven't reached the end after you've gone through themes and blocks!

We've had a quick look at the marketplace; you should know how to install add-ons automatically and also manually if necessary.

You should have a basic understanding about the structure of themes, blocks, and packages. We're going to cover all of them in the next few chapters, but make sure you know what an add-on directory looks like. Following the same pattern as every concrete5 developer keeps the process simple and clean for everybody.