This book is part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series. You will be guided through the set up of a Concrete5 site with step-by-step practical examples. This book is ideal for developers who would like to build their first site with Concrete5. Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML would be useful, but you will likely have little to no experience in using Concrete5. This book will teach you everything you need to know!
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Remo Laubacher
Remo Laubacher grew up in Central Switzerland in a small village surrounded by lots of mountains and natural beauty. He started working with computers several years ago. After doing various computer related work, he focused on ERP and Oracle development but always kept his know how about web technologies up to date. A bit later, he ended up having a BSc in Business Administration but still works as an ERP and web developer and consultant.
He is an owner at Ortic where he does his ERP and Oracle related business but also works at mesch.ch where he discovered Concrete5 as the perfect tool for their web related projects. He has published some tutorials on codeblog.ch.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is very nice book about C5 CMS which covers a lot of ground. It starts with the installation chapter, followed by explaining basis working with C5 (adding/editing blocks, pages etc.)
Chapter 3 deals with the permission system and in chapter 4 is dedicated to add-ons (C5's plugins) which extend basic functionality of C5.
Chapter 5 gives very detailed explanation how to convert HTML template for C5 CMS. There are lot of details provided and reader is destined to succeed. :-)
After that there are chapters about customizing block layouts, advanced navigation, creating one's own add-on block, writing a package for C5...even writing dashboard extensions is covered.
Pretty impressive for a 300p book, language is easy to follow and I highly recommend it for every C5 user who consider that official docs is not very well structured.
Why not 5 stars?
Well, my complain is that at some point the author changes in high speed and there is not, imho, enough explanation of 'why' but the reader is just given 'how'.
However, I must admit that it is probably due to the way this Packt 's "Beginner's Guid" series is 'designed' and author has taken maximum from the given 'field'.
Chapter 3 deals with the permission system and in chapter 4 is dedicated to add-ons (C5's plugins) which extend basic functionality of C5.
Chapter 5 gives very detailed explanation how to convert HTML template for C5 CMS. There are lot of details provided and reader is destined to succeed. :-)
After that there are chapters about customizing block layouts, advanced navigation, creating one's own add-on block, writing a package for C5...even writing dashboard extensions is covered.
Pretty impressive for a 300p book, language is easy to follow and I highly recommend it for every C5 user who consider that official docs is not very well structured.
Why not 5 stars?
Well, my complain is that at some point the author changes in high speed and there is not, imho, enough explanation of 'why' but the reader is just given 'how'.
However, I must admit that it is probably due to the way this Packt 's "Beginner's Guid" series is 'designed' and author has taken maximum from the given 'field'.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This long awaited Concrete5 guide book provides an in-depth walk-through of all the essentials you'll need to get up and running with a concrete5 website. It has loads of examples and useful code snippets for novice and intermediate concrete5 users, and also includes a few cool new tips and tricks that might even surprise concrete5 veterans. While the book's probably best suited for those who have a basic understanding of CSS, HTML, and PHP, it still has a lot of valuable information about operating a concrete5 website for those who are still learning these skills.
Within concrete5, many common website problems have already been solved at the interface level, so it's good to see that it takes the time to explore both the operation of the CMS from an end user's point of view, and how to customize your site from the code level. It covers a surprisingly wide range of topics, including: how to get a site running on your local development environment; how to skin your site with your own custom themes; using, customizing, & creating blocks; developing your own packages; how the attribute system functions; how to use basic and advanced user & group permissions; single pages, page-types, views & controllers; and deploying/configuring your site in a production environment. The author of the book, Remo Laubacher, has been an active member of the concrete5 community since it first became open source, and his contributions have played a significant part in how the system has developed over the years. With this in mind I can say that few people are as qualified to write a book on the subject. Highly recommended!
Within concrete5, many common website problems have already been solved at the interface level, so it's good to see that it takes the time to explore both the operation of the CMS from an end user's point of view, and how to customize your site from the code level. It covers a surprisingly wide range of topics, including: how to get a site running on your local development environment; how to skin your site with your own custom themes; using, customizing, & creating blocks; developing your own packages; how the attribute system functions; how to use basic and advanced user & group permissions; single pages, page-types, views & controllers; and deploying/configuring your site in a production environment. The author of the book, Remo Laubacher, has been an active member of the concrete5 community since it first became open source, and his contributions have played a significant part in how the system has developed over the years. With this in mind I can say that few people are as qualified to write a book on the subject. Highly recommended!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Concrete5 is a great content management system. Compared to the top 3 -- Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal -- it seems that the application architecture was designed to support the typical work needed to design and build a typical website that allows site owners to maintain and manage the content.
What Concrete5 lacks is documentation to understand the system and use the various capabilities to extend and enhance the base system to address specific client needs. On-line documentation is helpful, but either focuses on the user interface or the application API: the middle range of strategy is only lightly addressed. User forums are very helpful, but again, require the user to have sufficient understanding to ask the right questions.
Remo is one of the standout developer in the C5 world. He's combined some articles released previously online along with new material to create the only book, thus far, which addresses the intermediate developer working with C5.
The style of the book is distinctive, as other reviewers suggest. There is not a lot of why, but a lot of how. What you have are a series of steps which lead you more deeply into the product. Initial steps cover the user interface which is quite powerful -- a lot can be accomplished without programming. The latter half of the book involves enhancing and creating "blocks" -- the fundamental user interface module in C5.
This clearly is not a "one stop shop." The more knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, and MVC, the better off you'll be in understanding the "why." But, this also is a tremendous time-saver for anyone wanting to go more deeply into the product. And, it's really the only documentation available which addresses appropriate strategies in C5 in a fairly comprehensive way.
If you want to program in C5, you'll want this on your bookshelf.
What Concrete5 lacks is documentation to understand the system and use the various capabilities to extend and enhance the base system to address specific client needs. On-line documentation is helpful, but either focuses on the user interface or the application API: the middle range of strategy is only lightly addressed. User forums are very helpful, but again, require the user to have sufficient understanding to ask the right questions.
Remo is one of the standout developer in the C5 world. He's combined some articles released previously online along with new material to create the only book, thus far, which addresses the intermediate developer working with C5.
The style of the book is distinctive, as other reviewers suggest. There is not a lot of why, but a lot of how. What you have are a series of steps which lead you more deeply into the product. Initial steps cover the user interface which is quite powerful -- a lot can be accomplished without programming. The latter half of the book involves enhancing and creating "blocks" -- the fundamental user interface module in C5.
This clearly is not a "one stop shop." The more knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, and MVC, the better off you'll be in understanding the "why." But, this also is a tremendous time-saver for anyone wanting to go more deeply into the product. And, it's really the only documentation available which addresses appropriate strategies in C5 in a fairly comprehensive way.
If you want to program in C5, you'll want this on your bookshelf.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not what I expected
I purchased this book hoping it would be more of a recipe style. It turned out to be more about writing your own code for custom themes and blocks. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Warren Butvinik
Good content, presentation needs a lot of work
UPDATE: Note that a few days after I wrote this review, C5 released 5.5, which is a pretty major release. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Shashikant Penumarthy
An Excellent Resource for all Concrete5 Users
Having worked on countless Concrete5 websites, I'm regularly looking for a resource I can point my clients at. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jared Quinn
What a great book!
This book is incredibly useful if you are looking to build a CMS website.
Well written and straight forward if you have a little HTML & CSS knowledge. Read more
Well written and straight forward if you have a little HTML & CSS knowledge. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Concrete5 Fan
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