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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 – adding variables to handle login errors


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Before you put any code in view.php, open concrete\themes\core\concrete.php and have a look at the content of the file. Right before $innerContent is printed, there are a few lines about printing any existing errors. This is what we're going to need in our view.php file too. Copy and insert it in the new file, and it should look like the following:

    <?php
    defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die('Access Denied.');
    $this->inc('elements/header.php');
    ?>
    
    <div id="content">
    
    <?php
    Loader::element('system_errors', array('error'  => $error));
    ?>
    
    <?php
    echo $innerContent;
    ?>
    </div>
    
    <?php $this->inc('elements/footer.php'); ?>
  2. Now that we handle errors as well, we can use our view.php file to style the login page. Open config/site_theme_paths.php in your editor.

  3. There are already a few examples we can use as a template, or alternatively simply remove everything and insert the following...