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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

What's a package?


Before we start creating our package, here are a few words about the functionality and purpose of packages:

  • They can hold a single or several themes together

  • You can include blocks which your theme needs

  • You can check the requirements during the installation process in case your package depends on other blocks, configurations, and so on

  • A package can be used to hook into events raised by concrete5 to execute custom code during different kinds of actions

  • You can create single pages for custom functionality and dashboard pages

  • You can create jobs that run periodically to improve or check things in your website

These are the most important things you can do with a package. Some of what you can do doesn't depend on packages, but is easier to handle if you put it in packages. It's up to you, but putting every extension in a package might even be useful if there's just a single element in it—why?

  • You never have to worry where to extract the add-on. It always belongs in the packages...