cms design using php and jquery,CMS Design using PHP and jQuery

CMS Design Using PHP and jQuery

Table of Contents

CMS Design Using PHP and jQuery

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. CMS Core Design

The CMS's private and public areas

The front-end

The admin area

Plugins

Files and databases

Directory structure

Database structure

The configuration file

Hello World

Setup

Front controller

Reading page data from the database

Summary

2. User Management

Types of users

Roles

Database tables

Admin area login page

Logging in

Logging out

Forgotten passwords

User management

Deleting a user

Creating or editing a user

Summary

3. Page Management — Part One

How pages work in a CMS

Listing pages in the admin area

Hierarchical viewing of pages

Moving and rearranging pages

Administration of pages

Filling the parent selectbox asynchronously

Summary

4. Page Management — Part Two

Dates

Saving the page

Creating new top-level pages

Creating new sub-pages

Deleting pages

Rich-text editing using CKeditor

File management using KFM

Summary

5. Design Templates — Part One

How do themes and templates work?

File layout of a theme

Setting up Smarty

Front-end navigation menu

Summary

6. Design Templates — Part Two

Adding jQuery to the menu

Preparing the Filament Group Menu

Integrating the menu

Choosing a theme in the administration area

Choosing a page template in the administration area

Running Smarty on page content

Summary

7. Plugins

What are plugins?

Events in the CMS

Page types

Admin sections

Page admin form additions

Example plugin configuration

Enabling plugins

Handling upgrades and database tables

Custom admin area menu

Adding an event to the CMS

Adding tabs to the page admin

Summary

8. Forms Plugin

How it will work

The plugin config

Page types in the admin

Adding custom content forms to the page admin

Defining the form fields

Showing the form on the front-end

Handling the submission of the form

Sending by e-mail

Saving in the database

Exporting saved data

Summary

9. Image Gallery Plugin

Plugin configuration

Page Admin tabs

Initial settings

Uploading the Images

Handling the uploads

Adding a kfmget mod_rewrite rule

Deleting images

Front-end gallery display

Settings tab

Grid-based gallery

Summary

10. Panels and Widgets — Part One

Creating the panel plugin

Registering a panel

The panel admin area

Showing panels

Creating the content snippet plugin

Adding widgets to panels

Showing widgets

Dragging widgets into panels

Saving panel contents

Showing panels on the front-end

Summary

11. Panels and Widgets — Part Two

Widget forms

Saving the snippet content

Renaming widgets

Widget header visibility

Disabling widgets

Disabling a panel

Deleting a panel

Panel page visibility—admin area code

Panel page visibility—front-end code

Widget page visibility

Summary

12. Building an Installer

Installing a virtual machine

Installing VirtualBox

Installing the virtual machine

Installing the CMS in the VM

Creating the installer application

Core system changes

The installer

Checking for missing features

Adding the configuration details

Summary

Index