Open source CMS software: Concrete 5

Concrete5 is an open source Content Management System written in PHP.

Official website: http://www.concrete5.org

Save and retrieve arrays of data

Posted by JohntheFish in Developers on Nov 26, 2013

In a block controller, concrete5 takes care of storing and retrieving simple data items like numbers or strings automatically. But what can you do with arrays?

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Separating environment specific configurations

Posted by Mainio in Developers on Oct 29, 2013

In some situations you might wonder how you can separate your configurations files for different environments. This might come handy e.g. in projects where you store the configs files in your version control.

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Concrete 5 in an AWS load balanced cluster - 2

Posted by prema520 in Developers on Oct 4, 2013

This HowTo is meant to be read as part of the AWS sequence under the same title. This article is mainly about costs -- skip and wait for the next one if you are not concerned with that

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nginx (with fastcgi_cache) + php5-fpm

Posted by vipkilla in Developers on Oct 2, 2013

Simple configuration of nginx with fastcgi_cache enabled and php5-fpm

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Concrete 5 in an AWS load balanced cluster

Posted by prema520 in Developers on Oct 1, 2013

This is the begining of a series of notes on what we have discovered around how to run C5 on a load balanced cluster on the Amazon Web Services AWS platform See http://aws.amazon.com for the long version

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Integrate Concrete Wall with Magic Data using Universal Content Puller

Posted by enlil in Designers on Oct 1, 2013

Ever wish there was an easy way to integrate magic data with some other blocks from the front end of your site? There is!

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Style a file input field

Posted by JohntheFish in Developers on Sep 28, 2013

A quirk of html is that file input fields used to select a file for uploading are annoyingly resistant to styling. However, you can get round this with a few tricks.

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Write a Queuable Job in concrete5 5.6.2+

Posted by mkly in Developers on Sep 16, 2013

Learn about writing Queuable Jobs with concrete5's new queue engine

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"We use jQuery for almost all our JavaScript needs. We use Zend libraries for complicated stuff like internationalization and caching. We use MySQL, but we use it through the ADOdb Database Abstraction Layer. Sure our in-context editing is easy, but concrete5 has a really powerful advanced permissions system, a flexible data objects model and built-in helper classes as well. We've built concrete5 to be easy to understand at a glance, but super powerful once you open the hood."