Developing (v7+)

Email - Linking to external account

I'm using Consensus Theme and really enjoy it. My question has to do with how to "link" the text of what our email address is so that visitors can contact us through our gmail account. What I'm hoping to do is type our gmail address in a text block wh…

add captcha to external form

Hi there After testing around for a while, I reached the point to ask you guys. How the hack can I add a captcha validation to an external form? myForm.php [code]$captcha = Loader::helper('validation/captcha'); [/code] This adds the Captch…

Splash page - Age verification

Hi Im building this site http://www.coffsweb.com.au/boot/ I am required to add a splash page like this one http://www.smirnoff.com/en-au/#axzz3HOPVO3bd Is there a simple way of doing this?

Making a site go live

Hi, Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. What do I have to do to make my working in progress site my main site? I am currently building the new site under an extended url but when it is complete I want it to replace my original site tha…

Can't add new block basic_test from tutorial

I'm following this official tutorial http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/developers/understanding-and-building-blocks-in-concrete5/ to add a new block to my fresh installation of concrete5. When I downloaded the zip and unzipped it in con…

Special characters in page list filter

I've run across a problem when filtering a select attribute to generate a page list (sent over as a GET request). the attribute select value has an apostrophe (dan's house). The apostrophe is breaking the filter statement: [code]$pl->filterByAttribute(…

User registration

I have searched a great deal on how to enable user registration within concrete5 so not sure if I'm missing something... I have gone to System Settings > Public Registration and turned ON, however, I cannot find any link or block to allow user registra…

Form Block Datetime-Picker preselects

Hello If I use the integrated Formblock and add a DateTime 'question', is it possible to set the fields blank and not the current date and time? I need this on a customers table reservation form. Guests can reserve a table over the form. Unfortunat…

Using GIS Servers with Concrete5

Concrete5 is a great CMS and the google "blocks" and now openlayer "blocks" provide some simple mapping features. But when a site calls for more robust mapping features that are beyond the simple features, I am stumped about the direction to proceed. …

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