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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

Chapter 8. Creating Your Own Functionality

CMS Made Simple has only some rudimental features that belong to the standard installation. Any additional functionality can be installed with other modules, as you have learnt from the previous chapter. However, you often need your own functionality that is not covered by any existing module.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Create a product catalog with custom fields and an individual hierarchy

  • Use the functionality of a module in a way that it was not developed for

So let's get started...

Creating a product catalog

In this section, we will learn how to create a new module. As an example, the product catalog will be created, but in the same way, you can create any kind of catalog such as services, courses, real estate advertisements, or freelancer directory.

Before you create your own catalog module, you should plan its structure very thoroughly. First of all, reflect on the number of levels. Write down how many levels (product categories, subcategories, and...