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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


In this chapter, we looked at the process to transform a static HTML site into a concrete5 theme by adding a few PHP calls in our files. We split our theme into three parts; a header, the actual content file, and a footer, to make it easier to create different page templates to allow a quick change of the page structure.

After we finished our theme, we installed it and had a look at different functions you might be able to use in case you want to get a little bit more out of concrete5.

Afterwards, we created a new page attribute where we can assign a page specific background picture. The attribute example was rather simple, but once you've got into it, you should be able to come up with a lot of different applications for attributes.

Next, we added a navigation block right into our template to avoid the need to use page defaults or manually add the navigation on each page. This also made it impossible for the end user to accidentally remove or modify the navigation, a part of the site...