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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 – creating page attributes for navigation pictures


  1. In the dashboard, go to Attributes in the Pages & Themes section.

  2. At the bottom, in the Add Attribute area, select the drop-down, select Image/File, and click on Add.

  3. Enter navigation_pic_off for Handle and Navigation Picture Off for Name.

  4. Create another attribute of the same type with navigation_pic_on as the Handle and Navigation Picture On for the Name.

  5. If you intend to use this for all navigation items, you might want to assign the new attributes to the page types by default. Go to Page Types and click on Settings for each page type. Select the two new attributes and click on Save.

What just happened?

By following the steps given in the Time for action section, you created two attributes which allowed you to assign two pictures to every page. Attributes in concrete5 are very flexible—you can create and connect them to pages, users, and files in case you have to manage object-specific data.

Attributes can be helpful with...