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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

Custom templates to modify a block layout


In Chapter 4, Managing Add-ons, we've had a quick, first look at the structure of a block. We're going to take a deeper look at the two elements of that structure:

  • view.php: We're going to refer to it as the default block template. It's the file responsible for the output of the block.

  • templates: This directory contains more (optional) block templates. Some blocks already ship with several templates, some only with the default block template.

What does this mean in more detail?

  • A core custom template can be found in /concrete/blocks/<block-name>/templates. Custom templates are optional though; you won't find a lot of templates by default.

  • A custom template could also be placed in /blocks/<block-name>/templates. What's the difference to the location mentioned previously? You should never make any modification to a file in the concrete directory. This is why it's possible to override templates by using the same path without concrete at the...