concrete5 Beginners Guide电子书

concrete5

Table of Contents

concrete5

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

What's 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

MVC—model 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