Developing (v7+)

Theme Attributes

Hola. I need to add the ability to have attributes for Themes. Don't ask why, but it is for a good reason, i'll tell when I am done. I want don't mind doing all the work but if someone could point me in the right direction that would be great. I won't…

Remove area from search index

Hullo all, Does anyone know how to exclude an area from the search index? I've found a fair bit of discussion on the old problem of adding areas, but this seems to be changed now to search all areas by default (ruling out the slightly kludgy fix of ch…

Auto Nav menus

I am building a Concrete5 site but have come up against a small problem with the navigation. I can insert a header nav block which works but I have some custom html to use from the source file and need to set up a custom template I think. Can anyone he…

Single Location for db connection info

What is the best practice for storing database connection information? I will have various Controllers connect to an external database and I don't want to include the host/user/password in each controller.php file/function view(). Thanks.

Finding page aliases

Hi, I've got a 'folder' of pages in my sitemap, which get aliased below various other pages such as 'US', 'UK', 'India'. Is there a C5 way of finding those aliases and where they are? So when you view a page, I could say - 'This page is also listed…

Print style sheet still showing nav bar and sub nav links

I am wanting to establish a print stylesheet that purely shows the body copy of the website and none of the navigation links but despite putting this in the header [code][/code] I have made sure that the #navigation div is set to display=none howeve…

When to re-install custom block?

After I install basic_test, can I just edit the php/xml files to make updates and corrections? Do I ever need to do a re-install? If so, how?

Adding menu item to dashboard

Hi all, What is the easiest way to add a menu item to the dashboard? Specifically, I want to build an area that allows a user to add/modify/delete records to a database, and I want them to do this through the dashboard, vice having to go through an…

Login form on 403 Forbidden page

I'm looking to set up the login page, 404 and 403 pages to use my theme. I've got the login page and the 404 working as I want, but for whatever reason, the 403 seems to want to point to the login page. I've set them all up as single pages in my site,…

Change addFriend function to allow approval by selected friend

I want to change the way the "Add Friend" function works in the "Members/profiles" views. Once you search for a friend's name, you have the choice to add them as a friend. I would rather it be a request to add a friend where the friend has to approve …

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