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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 – creating the picture magnifier block


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Create a new folder named jqzoom in blocks as we did before.

  2. Download the plugin from the preceding link and copy the images directory to our new folder. Do the same with the css directory and js but make sure there's just one file in js named jquery.jqzoom-core-pack.js.

  3. Create two files, add.php and edit.php with the same content as always:

    <?php 
    defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die('Access Denied.');
    $this->inc('form_setup_html.php'); 
  4. The database structure file db.xml is quite simple:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <schema version="0.3">
       <table name="btJqzoom">
          <field name="bID" type="I">
             <key />
             <unsigned />
          </field>
          <field name="title" type="C" size="255"></field>   
          <field name="fIDpicture" type="I"></field>
       </table>
    </schema>
  5. The block controller you have to save as controller.php also is...