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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

Events to hook into the core


Without going into any technical details, concrete5 raises a number of different events with which your own add-ons can interact. If you want to synchronize the users created, modified, and removed in concrete5 with your own system, hook into these events and you can run your own code whenever someone changes something related to users.

These events can be related to the following elements:

  • Pages: To interact when a new page is created, removed, approved, and so on.

  • Users and groups: To run custom code upon changes happening to these objects.

  • Files: To execute your own code when someone uploads, edits, removes a file, and so on.

You can find the complete list of events on the following page:

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/system/events

If you build your own add-ons, you can also dispatch your own events. You're not restricted to the default events.