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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

Summary


This has been the last chapter where you actually build something. In the next and last chapter, we're only going to look at how to deploy your site to a different server as well as a few configurations that you can make.

While most customizations and add-ons we created are pretty basic, they should have given you the basic knowledge to build lots of different add-ons. Once you get used to the concrete5 framework, you can build all kinds of add-ons just by knowing what has been discussed so far in combination with some PHP and JavaScript knowledge.

Before the end of this chapter, think about the following things and make sure you know and understand them. These are the basics from this chapter that you should know if you build your own dashboard extension:

  • A dashboard add-on is basically a single page like any other single page, with the exception that it's located underneath the dashboard in the sitemap and requires a little stricter HTML/layout to keep visual consistency in the dashboard...