CMS Design Using PHP and jQuery Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: CMS Core Design
Chapter 2: User Management
Chapter 3: Page Management – Part One
Chapter 4: Page Management – Part Two
Chapter 5: Design Templates – Part One
Chapter 6: Design Templates – Part Two
Chapter 7: Plugins
Chapter 8: Forms Plugin
Chapter 9: Image Gallery Plugin
Chapter 10: Panels and Widgets – Part One
Chapter 11: Panels and Widgets – Part Two
Chapter 12: Building an Installer
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 5: Design Templates – Part One
• How do themes and templates work?
• File layout of a theme
• Setting up Smarty
• Front-end navigation menu
• Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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