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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 – moving the PDF block into a package


Some blocks depend on helpers, files, and libraries, which aren't in the block directory. The PDF generator block is such an example. It depends on a file found in the tools directory in the root of your concrete5 website as well as a file in the libraries directory. How do we include such a directory in a package? Here are the steps that you need to follow:

  1. Move the pdf directory from blocks to packages/c5book/blocks since we also want to include the block in the package.

  2. Locate the c5book directory within packages and create a new subdirectory named tools.

  3. Move generate_pdf.php from tools to packages/c5book/tools.

  4. Create another directory named libraries in packages/c5book.

  5. Move the MPDF56 directory from libraries to packages/c5book/libraries.

    As we've moved two objects, we have to make sure our code looks for them in the right place. Open packages/c5book/tools/generate.php and look for Loader::library at the beginning of the file. We have...