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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Understanding events


In the last section, you learned to create user-defined tags. To execute the PHP code in the tags, you had to place it in the page or the template. With Event Manager, you can execute the code when certain events occur. An event can be the creation of a new page or even deleting a user in the admin console. There are over 50 events already defined in CMS Made Simple, and every module can have additional events.

Examples for executing user-defined tags on events are as follows:

  • Sending an e-mail to the administrator of the website if any page is updated

  • Replacing certain parts of the page before displaying it on the website

  • Deleting associated stylesheets if the template is deleted

CMS Made Simple triggers events such as ContentEditPost or DeleteTemplatePre, when the specified action occurs. You create one or more user-defined tags with custom functionality and assign them to the event. This means that the assigned functionality will be executed when the event is triggered...