Developing (v7+)

Unable to connect to database

I am going nuts! I have a database created in mysql as hosted by UK2.net I have a username with a password with the appropriate rights however I can not connect to the database. Any ideas

dashboard block / link

Hi :) anyone know how to make a block for the dashboard rather than the front end? I need to edit xml from the admin for a media player, a link from the dashboard left menu would be ideal. Im sure there is details somewhere ... i just can find i…

Images in blocks

I am quite new to C5. So far it's great to work with. I'm building a new block to display a list of car's that are for sale. Now in the view.php i need to place some images, but I'm not sure where to put the image. Can I make an images dir right insid…

Styling page not found (404) error page

Hey there, I would like to replace the standard concrete 404 page not found design to a branded page to match a specific website's design. So I started off by copying the controller and single page from the concrete dir to the main dir, to override the…

use single_page for home

I think I talked to Andrew about this a while ago. I've got a few sites where I need a home page which is different from all the other pages. Usually when building a multi language site. Right now, I have to use a page type for this. This works but …

Form as a Contact Form

I'm trying to use the Form as a contact form and would like the 'from' to show up as an email address that they enter. Ideas on how to accomplish this?

Count page childs

Hello all, I was trying to get a total count of child pages for a page, for instance if i have a page called reports and within reports i have to more pages, new reports and old reports how can i get a total count of child pages for reports? i tri…

Setting Upload Location

Hello C5 Ninjas :: We're developing a site which we expect to have regular upload activity. We'd like to be able to have the uploads go a directory such as /uploads so that client can setup a FTP client to watch for uploads. What do you all thi…

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