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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

Time for action – including an existing template


You can include an existing template to your concrete5 site by following these steps:

  1. Create a new file at the following location:

    blocks/content/templates/wrapper.php

  2. Enter the following code in the new file:

    <div class="content-wrapper">
    <?php 
    $bvt = new BlockViewTemplate($this->getBlockObject()); 
    $bvt->setBlockCustomTemplate(false);
    
    include($bvt->getTemplate());
    ?>
    </div>
  3. Save the file and go back to your concrete5 site.

  4. Add a new content block and click on it after you've hit Add and select Custom Template.

  5. Select Wrapper and update again.

What just happened?

When you look at the HTML code generated by concrete5 you'll find an additional DIV in the output with a class called content-wrapper.

You can use this class in your CSS file called main.css. Add a rule like this to change the background color:

.content-wrapper {
   background-color: silver;
}

We've created a new template which basically includes the existing...