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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

Building a product information block


In this section, we're going to create a rather simple block that allows you to enter structured content in order to make sure the output looks identical for all products on your webpage. This block is needed for the second example, which pulls information from every information block to create a list.

While this block is called Product Information, it can easily be modified to hold different kind of information, such as news, real estate, FAQ, team members, and more. The input dialog is going to contain three fields, one for the title, a picture, and a rich text editor for the description. The result is going to look similar to the following screenshot:

Steps for creating a block

We already had a first quick look at the files of a basic block in Chapter 4, Managing Add-ons. Now, we're going to create these files. To do this, we have to create a new directory as we did several times when we created a new template. However, this time we're not going to use...