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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

Packages


A package is basically a container for elements such as blocks, themes, attribute types, jobs, and so on. You can use it to wrap a theme, resources, and blocks into a single package. This is mostly useful if you intend to build a big add-on where all the elements are connected together.

By using a package, you make add-ons easier to handle and install. You can also make the installation process a bit more solid by extending the package's installer method to check the requirements.

You can easily recognize a package by looking at its structure, which is shown in the following screenshot:

There are several indications telling you that you're looking at a package and not just a block or theme:

  • There's a subdirectory called blocks or themes or many of the directory names you can find in the root of your site.

  • The controller is the only PHP file you can find in the root. A block would at least need a file called view.php.

Note

Every add-on in the marketplace is built as a package to make the...