Developing (v7+)

Creating new page type issues

OK. So my procedure to create a new page type: 1. Create separate php template (eg downloads.php) and uplaod to server 2. In Dashboard, go to Pages and Themes > Page Types 3. Add new page type 4. NAME THE PAGE TYPE THE SAME AS THE NEW TEMPLATE (eg Dow…

Singlepages & data manipulation

Does anyone know of any good tutorials explaining singlepage CRUD operations? I'm working on an "Events" add on. I know how to create the admin pages and I know how to do hard-coded SQL calls, but I want to know the proper concrete5 way to interact wi…

Custom Block with Lightbox Support

Hi Folks, I would like to build a custom Image Block with Lightbox Support. So far everything works great except the Lightbox Buttons next, Prev, Close are not showing up. I know the problem, but have no solution. My custom block resides in the /Blocks…

How can I cross reference information to generate listings?

Lets say I am building a tennis website. I have player profiles, stadium profiles, grand slam match results. A visitor comes to my site and reads an article about the final of Wimbledon 1999. He wants to know more about the winner and and clicks on …

No page types at all? (help!)

Hi, I'm trying to edit my page types, but when i go in there, i have nothing. Not one page type is listed.. Even when i go back to the default themes there's nothing there..? very odd? Has anyone encountered this before? I've searched the forum but …

Download Drop Down Menu

I have several versions of the same file (ex. 4:3 desktop background and 16:9 desktop background). Rather than have a link for each file, I'd like to have a drop down box where they have the option to select either standard or widescreen for their downlo…

Cascade Attributes

Hi Is there a package or add-on to cascade page attributes - specifically meta description and keywords into child pages? Thanks, Jake

One user, two passwords?

I have basically made a bit of a stuff up. I set up a user for a client. I then emailed the client his login details, the problem being that he has two email addresses and on one of the emails i sent it had the wrong password. I'm wondering if i can d…

Pagelist template inside template

Is there any way of packing and installing a custom page-list type into my themes I make to accompany them as well as preferably creating a thumbnail page attribute? For example: I want to include this pagelist type on my site http://mattgreydesign.com…

Modifying PHP and applying it to a theme after it's been activated

Hi, I not too long ago converted a client's site and applied Concrete5 to it. The site has a left side menu that's embedded in the theme so the no one can change that. The client recently asked us to add another item to the menu. I've gone in the php f…

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