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Creating Concrete5 Themes

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Creating Concrete5 Themes

Overview of this book

Creating a concrete5 theme isn't complicated if there’s already a HTML document. There are only very few PHP functions you’ll have to add, but those are powerful and give you a lot of freedom. As you’ll learn to create mobile ready themes, you’ll start to see that there’s almost no limit in what you can do."Creating Concrete5 Themes" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of examples that will teach you how to create powerful concrete5 themes, change the look of content block elements, and even make your site ready for mobile devices."Creating Concrete5 Themes" starts with a few words about the editing concept and architecture of concrete5 and then continues with the creation of a basic theme which gets extended with more and more elements until the theme is mobile ready.You will learn where to find the information necessary to get your own concrete5 site and then get a quick introduction to understand the idea of the in-site editing concept. We’ll then create a theme which is extended with features and more details as we progress. You’ll also see some examples to show you the process of overriding elements from the core without losing the ability to upgrade concrete5 in the future. Once we’ve customized every element in concrete5 to build a complete theme, we’ll have a look at responsive techniques to make your site ready for small screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets.  
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Creating concrete5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

concrete5 API and helpers


concrete5 is mostly a CMS, but also a framework. Some parts have been borrowed from Zend framework but a lot of code is concrete5-specific. That's mostly because concrete5 has a longer history than most people think.

But despite its history, building applications, and not just simple websites, is a joy and not complicated at all. It might take some time until you understand the most important classes and libraries, but it's definitely worth the effort.

We won't cover all of the different helpers, libraries, and models, we're just going to look at some major elements to give you a quick overview. It should be enough to get you started if you ever want to dive deeper into concrete5.

Helpers

If you look at the directory /concrete/helpers, you'll find a number of files supposed to make your life easier. There are helpers to work with dates, JSON objects, pagination, form items, validation, text sanitation, and of course a number of helpers rather specific for concrete5...