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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

Chapter 5. Creating Your Own Theme

In this chapter, we're going to change the layout of the site we've created. To achieve this, we will convert an HTML file into a concrete5 theme. This means that we have to replace and insert a few lines of PHP code to make things a bit more dynamic. However, you'll see that the basic conversion process is rather easy and quick; creating a concrete5 theme does only require very little PHP skill and almost no time.

Some code snippets are just modifications to other snippets in this chapter. If you want to re-create the theme code on your own, you have to follow each step and follow the instructions precisely. If you're in a hurry, at the end of the chapter you'll find a link from where you can download the final code used in this chapter.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to create concrete5 themes by going through the follow topics:

  • A simple example showing you how to convert an existing HTML to a concrete5 theme

  • An explanation and more examples about...