A review of Concrete 5 and what is new in version 5.7
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Transcript of A review of Concrete 5 and what is new in version 5.7
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What is Concrete5?
Overview
Content management system that is focused on ease of use
Aimed at designers, front-enders, back-end developers and tinkerers
Extendable framework that can be used to build any kind of web app
A growing community with a marketplace of add-ons
Selling Features
● In-context WYSIWYG editing
● Lego-style page building
● Intuitive admin interface
● User permissions and workflows
● Theming
Cool StuffDevelopers
What you get if you downloaded it today
Our first few C5 sites were built using v5.6.1.2
Concrete released an Alpha of v5.7 and it was bad.
The majority of our other C5 sites are built using v5.6.3.1 to v5.6.3.4
Note: v5.6 of C5 is still being maintained/supported!
Their official “stable, you can use this commercially” release
March 2013
v5.6.1.2
History Lesson
April 2014v5.7 Alpha
12/09/14v5.7
“Stable”
Present Day
v5.7.5March 2014
v5.6.3.1
New / Improved Features in V5.7
Editing / Admin
Redactor / ACE editor
Bootstrap 3
Improved Dashboard
New image editor
Improved Users & Groups
Multilingual by default
Help System
Architecture
● Custom Composer instances
● Built-in asset system
● PHP FIG* PSR-2 { Code::style();}
● Classes autoloaded and namespaced (PSR-4)
● Laravel & Symfony powered components (routing layer, events layer, request/session/cookie libraries)
Cool Stuff
* PHP Framework Interoperability Group
New / Improved Features in V5.7
Cool StuffDevelopers
Multilingual Translations ManagerCSS Customisation
New / Improved Features in V5.7
Cool StuffDevelopers
New Redactor editor Ace Editor
HistoryFuture Roadmap
Import/Export tools for migration between 5.6 and 5.7, also Wordpress import :D
eCommerce
Custom composer interfaces for complicated page types.
Inline image sizing/cropping in edit mode.
Intranet
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