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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 – undoing autonav block integration


  1. Open header.php from your theme; it's located in the themes/c5book/elements directory.

  2. Since the following code snippet doesn't show the complete file, make sure you replace the correct lines. Everything is underneath the HTML tag with the ID header:

    <div id="wrapper">
    <div id="page">
    <div id="header_line_top"></div>
    <div id="header">
        <?php 
           $a = new GlobalArea('Header Nav');
           $a->display($c)
        ?>
    </div>
    <div id="header_line_bottom"></div>
  3. Save header.php and go back to your page. Make sure the navigation is still there; if it isn't, go back to edit the page and add a new autonav block in Header Nav. Please note that you'll see a hint telling you that you're placing the block in a global area. It just means that these changes will have an effect on several pages, though this is not an issue but rather what we want.

  4. After you add the block, click on it and select Custom...