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Security :: Capability

I have to give a speech to my customer(s) who are concerned about their intellectual property in the form of documents posted and accessed via the Internet, which I am proposing to speed production. Granted; nothing is 100% full-proof, a higher level…

Security Best Practice for Editing?

Security Best Practice is to grant the lowest level of access to get a task done. In the case of the Profile Form, if editor rights are given to a user,he has total control to add/delete/edit anything on the page in any block. While it is true that …

returning values from dialog to another dialog

Hi, I'm building a block but I'm stuck at the following problem... When adding or editing a block, it will open in a dialog window. I made a button that opens another dialog window from (within) the current one. The second one holds a form with text…

Modifying the "Form" block

Hi everyone We are curently trying to modify the form block to incorporate our service which captures the details filled in and save them in our database for our clients marketing use. But we are facing a couple of problems so far: 1/ how can we ch…

Reasoning for why plugin controllers aren't prioritised?

I'm trying to build a plugin that replaces a default concrete5 page, the /dashboard. What I have done is to change the pkgID on the "/dashboard/view.php" entry in the Pages table to my plugin's id. This is working for replacing the view however not …

Avatar Source Code

When a user uploads an avatar image there is no confirmation that the job is complete. From a usability view this is horrible and I found it confusing from the start. Is there either a) A possibility of obtaining the source code for the flash uploade…

Edit a sidebar include file

I would like to include a common sidebar in one of my page templates. The sidebar would contain content that would be static across all pages that use it (i.e. not editable on a page by page basis) I know I can simply add a PHP include file for the sid…

Adding Editable Area Block in a Theme Question

I'm just curious about something. When adding a block area to my theme, I've been using: [code][/code] for every single area I add to my theme. That said, I see many themes using [code] $ah $a $menu[/code] they seem to show up in a m…

Add Category links in blog post

Hi guys, I am using the latest concrete5 release (5.4.1) and just wondering how I would show category links pertaining to a post on each entry? cheers, Ritchie

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