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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - using extra page attributes


Let's see how you can hide the news summary on the Contact Us page.

  1. 1. Open the Contact Us page (Content | Pages) for editing.

  2. 2. Switch to the Options tab, and enter nonews into the field Extra Page Attribute 1.

  3. 3. Save the page.

  4. 4. Now in the admin console, open your main template (Layout | Templates).

  5. 5. Find the Smarty tag {news}, and add an IF function as shown:

    {if $node->extra1 != "nonews"}
    {news ...}
    {/if}
    
  6. 6. Check the Contact Us page to see the changes.

What just happened?

Extra page attributes are a simple way to give additional control over the layout of the website to the editor of the website. He should only know what he must enter into the field Extra Page Attribute 1. In the template, you evaluate whether any value is saved in the field and control what content should be shown or not on this specific page.

The values entered in the extra page attributes can be retrieved in the template with $node->extra1, $node->extra2, and ...