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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

Time for action – specifying block templates in an area


Sometimes you might want to set a default block template for an area. This might happen if the default template doesn't work at all and the customer would have to select a custom template for each block he/she adds. Let's save his/her time and specify a block template in our template.

  1. Open a theme template like default.php.

  2. Look for the PHP block which defines an area and insert the highlighted line from the following snippet:

    <?php
    $b = new Area('Main');
    $b->setCustomTemplate('autonav', 'templates/header_menu');
    $b->display($c);
    ?>

What just happened?

The single line of code that we've added to our theme templates makes sure that for every autonav block where no template has manually been specified in the user interface, the header_menu template is used.

While setting header_menu for all autonav blocks is probably a bit useless, you'll learn how to build your own block templates in the next chapter. Once you've created your...