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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - 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

Time for action – adding a Gravatar picture to the guestbook


Follow these steps to easily add a Gravatar to the guestbook:

  1. You will now need to create the following directory structure: blocks/guestbook/templates. Next, copy view.php from concrete/blocks/guestbook/view.php and place it in blocks/guestbook/templates and then rename it to gravatar.php to make it clear what the template is going to be used for.

  2. The default block template contains quite a lot of code as it contains some functions to manage the comments. We won't have to bother with it, but we have to find our way around it. There are only a few lines we have to insert; open gravatar.php and search for <div class="contentByLine"> and insert the highlighted lines before the div element.

    <div class="guestBook-entry<?php if ($c->getVersionObject()->getVersionAuthorUserName() == $u->getUserName()) { ?> authorPost <?php } ?>">
        <?php if ($bp->canWrite()) { ?> 
            <div class="guestBook...