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CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook

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CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple has great capabilities “out of the box,” but one of its great strengths is the ease of extending those capabilities. You can add a surprising amount of functionality just by customizing the core modules, but once you learn to write your own tags and modules, your ability to add features is virtually limitless.CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook will show you how to use custom PHP code to extend the power and features of CMS Made Simple, and make it do exactly what you want. This easy to use guide contains clear recipes that introduce the key concepts behind each approach to extending the CMS, while also providing examples of solutions to real-world problems.You will learn the differences between the various kinds of tags and modules in the CMS Made Simple environment, and to which purposes each is best fit. Each technology is then explored in detail with a series of practical recipes and examples.You will not only learn the basics of creating tags and modules, but you will explore the underlying APIs that you will use to solve real-world website problems. You will become proficient with the database and form APIs, so that the code you write is portable and maintainable. You'll learn to localize your code and use templates to add its flexibility. You'll master the safe handling of parameters and the creation of secure code. You’ll be familiar with the CMS Made Simple Developer's Forge, and how you can use it in conjunction with revision control as a community-focused code management system, complete with web-based bug tracking and feature requests. You will learn to code complex interactions between modules, both directly and via the creation and handling of events. You will gain exposure to an array of advanced tips and tricks, along with commentary from the distilled experience of someone who has written dozens of modules. The CMS Made Simple Developer's Cookbook offers an amazing wealth of knowledge in approachable, bite-sized recipes. Whether you're new to the CMS or an old hand, you're sure to find valuable tips and information that will have you creating a richer CMS.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating your Subversion Repository


The value of a source-code revision control system cannot be overstated. It enables distributed development — multiple people can work on code simultaneously without worrying about clobbering one another's work. It takes the risk out of making changes, since you can always see what code changed, when it changed, and who changed it. There is a learning curve to using revision control, but once you get the hang of it, you'll never want to go back to keeping backup zip files or directories again.

Note

Subversion, also known as "SVN", is one of the most popular revision control systems in use today, and is one of the choices available for projects on the CMS Made Simple Developer's Forge.

This recipe shows how to import your project into SVN.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have already created an account on the Developer's Forge, in this case with the username "coder123". We further assume that your project is a module that implements a "What You...