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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

Remo Laubacher, Concrete5 Project

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concrete5
- Table of Contents
- concrete5
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
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    - Why Subscribe?
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- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Time for action heading
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz heading
    - Have a go hero heading
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Installation
  - Preparing for installation
    - Web browser
    - Text editor
    - Archive utility
    - FTP client
  - XAMPP installation
  - Time for action installing XAMPP
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz requirements for concrete5
  - Downloading concrete5
  - Time for action downloading the latest version
    - What just happened?
  - Creating an empty SQL database
  - Time for action creating an empty SQL database
    - What just happened?
  - Installing concrete5
  - Time for action installing concrete5
    - What just happened?
      - The configuration file
    - Pop quiz the configuration file
      - Pretty URLs
  - Time for action enabling pretty URLs
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 2. Working with concrete5
  - Getting familiar with concrete5
  - Time for action logging in to concrete5
    - What just happened?
  - Adding new blocks
  - Time for action adding new blocks
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action editing existing blocks
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero adding more blocks
  - Time for action exiting edit mode
    - Pop quiz concrete5 in-site editing mode
  - The dashboard
    - Pop quiz dashboard features
  - Adding more pages
  - Time for action adding pages to create a news section
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adding blocks to new page
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero adding more pages
  - Page defaults
  - Time for action adding default blocks to a page type
    - What just happened?
    - Adding blocks to existing sites
  - Page commands
    - Moving and sorting pages
  - Time for action moving and sorting your pages
    - What just happened?
  - Splitting content into columns
  - Time for action creating a multi-column layout
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero add more columns and blocks
  - Scrapbook
  - Time for action putting your addresses in a scrapbook
    - What just happened?
  - Design and CSS
  - Time for action styling your blocks
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero play around
  - Summary
- 3. Permissions
  - Basic permissions
    - Adding users and groups
  - Time for action adding groups
    - What just happened?
      - Group expiration options
  - Time for action adding users
    - What just happened?
      - User attributes
    - Sitemap and file manager permissions
  - Time for action assigning sitemap permissions
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action granting file manager permissions
    - What just happened?
    - Granting edit access
      - Managing edit access on a page by page basis
    - Creating a protected website section
  - Time for action creating a protected website
    - What just happened?
    - Task permissions
  - Time for action setting task permissions
    - What just happened?
    - Dashboard access
  - Time for action granting partial dashboard access
    - What just happened?
  - Advanced permission mode
  - Time for action activating the advanced permission mode
    - What just happened?
    - Time based page visibility
  - Time for action setting time based page visibility
    - What just happened?
    - Subpage permissions
  - Time for action setting sub-page permissions
    - What just happened?
    - Block based permissions
  - Time for action using block permissions
    - What just happened?
    - Area based permissions
  - Time for action restricting allowed blocks for an area
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz permissions in concrete5
  - Summary
- 4. Add-ons
  - Whats an add-on?
    - Installing add-ons from the marketplace
  - Time for action installing an add-on
  - Time for action removing an add-on
    - What just happened?
    - Manually installing an add-on
  - Time for action manually installing an add-on
    - What just happened?
  - Theme
    - Parts of a theme
    - Theme file structure
  - Blocks
    - Block structure
  - Packages
    - Pop quiz what's a package?
  - Summary
- 5. Creating Your Own Theme
  - The new layout
    - The HTML code
    - CSS rules
  - Converting HTML and CSS to a concrete5 theme
  - Time for action creating the concrete5 theme header
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating the concrete5 theme footer
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating a page template
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating more page templates
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz what are page templates and page types?
  - Installing your theme
  - Time for action installing theme
    - What just happened?
  - PHP constants and functions
  - Time for action getting a list of available constants
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action list all available functions
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action checking for edit mode
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action hiding content from anonymous visitors
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action restricting numbers of blocks per area
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action inserting block wrapper in area
    - What just happened?
  - Working with page attributes
  - Time for action using attributes to set background picture
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action accessing attribute data from a template
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz what are attributes?
  - Block in templates
  - Time for action replacing header area with template block
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action finding autonav block properties
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action specifying block template in area
    - What just happened?
  - Applying theme to single page
  - Time for action creating single page layout
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adding variables to handle login errors
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz what's a single page?
  - Creating a customizable theme
  - Time for action a creating customizable theme
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 6. Customizing Block Layout
  - Custom templates to modify block layout
  - Thumbnails in a page list
  - Time for action adding thumbnails to a page list
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action restricting thumbnail dimension
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action restricting thumbnails to a custom dimension
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero improving thumbnail page list
    - Have a go hero explore concrete5 helpers
  - Template folder
  - Time for action creating a template folder
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz how to include CSS and JavaScript files
  - Picture pop-ups in content block
  - Time for action building a lightbox gallery
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero creating another JavaScript gallery
  - Gravatar picture in guestbook
  - Time for action adding a Gravatar picture to the guestbook
    - What just happened?
  - Avoiding duplicate code in a custom template
  - Time for action including an existing template
    - What just happened?
  - Auto-hide news page list
  - Time for action creating an auto-hide page list
    - What just happened?
  - Transforming a slideshow into a gallery
  - Time for action creating a gallery template for a slideshow
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adding a slideshow gallery
    - What just happened?
  - Slideshow using file attributes
  - Time for action adding file attributes to our slideshow
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action using file attributes in the gallery
    - What just happened?
  - Advanced tooltip in content block
  - Time for action creating advanced tooltips
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 7. Advanced Navigation
  - Autonav introduction
    - Preparation
  - Time for action undoing autonav block integration
    - What just happened?
    - Autonav options
      - Autonav page structure
      - Page order
      - Example 1 showing all pages
      - Example 2 showing relevant subpages
      - Example 3 showing relevant subpages starting from the top
    - Autonav output
  - Images in the navigation
  - Time for action creating page attributes for navigation pictures
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating block picture navigation template
    - What just happened?
  - CSS3 hover effect
  - Time for action creating a CSS3 transition autonav template
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero create more transitions
  - Drop-down navigation
  - Time for action creating SooperFish template
    - What just happened?
  - Hierarchical tree navigation
  - Time for action building a file explorer-like navigation
    - What just happened?
  - Dynamically loading content
  - Time for action dynamically loading concret5 content using jQuery
    - What just happened?
    - Allowing direct links in dynamically loaded pages
  - Time for action direct link with dynamic content
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 8. Creating Your Own Add-on Block
  - Product information block
    - Steps to create a block
      - Database structure
  - Time for action creating the database structure
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating the block controller
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating the editing interface
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action printing block output
    - What just happened?
    - Checking for mandatory fields
  - Time for action adding check for mandatory fields
    - What just happened?
    - Adding product categories
  - Time for action adding product categories
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero getting more information about blocks
  - Product list
    - Handling multiple block versions
  - Time for action handling multiple block versions
    - What just happened?
    - Creating a product list block
  - Time for action creating the product list block
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero extend product list
  - Picture magnifier
  - Time for action creating the picture magnifier block
    - What just happened?
  - PDF generation block
  - Time for action creating the PDF generation block
    - What just happened?
    - generate_pdf.php
      - view.php
  - FTP gallery
  - Time for action creating the FTP based picture gallery
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero adding more gallery options
  - Summary
- 9. Everything in a Package
  - What's a package?
    - Package structure
    - Package controller
  - Time for action creating the package controller
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz
  - Moving templates into package
  - Moving themes and blocks into the package
  - Time for action moving jQZoom block into the package
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action moving the PDF block into the package
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero move more add-ons
  - Hooking into core events
    - Event types
    - Extending an event
    - Pop quiz
  - Maintenance tasks and jobs
  - Time for action execute concrete5 jobs periodically
    - What just happened?
    - Creating a new job
  - Time for action creating a job to check for broken links
    - What just happened?
  - Injecting header items
    - Adding tooltips for every title tag
  - Time for action creating global tooltips
    - What just happened?
    - JavaScript browser fixes
  - Time for action integrating CSS fix in the package
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz
      - Have a go hero create a new package
  - Summary
- 10. Dashboard Extensions
  - MVCmodel view controller
  - Broken link interface
  - Time for action creating the broken links dashboard extension
    - What just happened?
    - Moving database access into model
  - Time for action creating package model
    - What just happened?
    - Multiple controller methods
  - Time for action adding a second controller method
    - What just happened?
  - File editor embedded in the dashboard
  - Time for action creating the file editor add-on
    - What just happened?
    - Controller without logic
    - Have a go hero extending the file editor add-on
  - Summary
- 11. Deployment and Configuration
  - Deployment
    - Preparations for deployment
  - Time for action disabling pretty URL and cache
    - What just happened?
    - Transfer MySQL database
  - Time for action transferring a MySQL database
    - What just happened?
    - Transferring files to server
  - Time for action transferring files to the server
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating the configuration file
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action setting file permissions
    - What just happened?
  - Configuration
    - Updating the configuration file
    - Base URL redirection
    - Multilanguage
  - Time for action installing a translation file
    - What just happened?
    - Cache to improve performance
  - Time for action getting PHP information
    - What just happened?
      - Activating SQLite
      - Using APC
      - Measuring the site performance
  - Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
  - Chapter 1: Installation
    - Pop Quiz 1
    - Pop Quiz 2
  - Chapter 2: Working with concrete5
    - Pop Quiz 1
    - Pop Quiz 2
  - Chapter 3: Permissions
  - Chapter 4: Add-ons
  - Chapter 5: Creating Your Own Theme
    - Pop quiz 1
    - Pop Quiz 2
    - Pop Quiz 3
  - Chapter 6: Creating Your Own Add-on Block
  - Chapter 9: Everything in a Package
    - Pop Quiz 1
    - Pop Quiz 2
    - Pop Quiz 3
- Index

Title: concrete5 Beginner's Guide
Author: Remo Laubacher, Concrete5 Project
Original title: concrete5 Beginner's Guide.
ISBN: 9781849514293, 9781849514293
Date of issue: 2011-03-18
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3d28
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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