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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

Injecting header items


Sometimes you want to make sure an element, such as a JavaScript file, is shared in the header of your HTML document. concrete5 allows you to inject any element, such as a JavaScript or a CSS file, into the head of your HTML document from your block or package controller.

Adding tooltips for every title tag

Remember the content block template we created in Chapter 6, Customizing Block Layouts to enhance the custom tooltips with a more stylish version? The template works nicely, but it only works if you change the custom template for every content block where you want this tooltip to appear. Now, let's say you forget to change the template on one page. Nothing would be broken, but the look and feel of your website wouldn't be consistent, something we'd like to avoid.

What options are there?

  • We could create a block for this which would use the content of the whole page. This means that you wouldn't have to modify every content block but you'd still have to place that block...