with concrete5 you usually put your add-on code in a package and don’t touch the core. This concept allows you to update the CMS core without overriding anything you’ve built on your own. In order to interact with the CMS you can use several f…

Creating a drop down navigation is an old technique by now but it’s still used in a lot of cases to hide parts of a navigation. In addition to the plain CSS menu I wrote more than 2 years ago, I decided to write a new tutorial which uses JavaScript …

Most browsers are looking for that little favicon to display a 16×16 icon next to the URL in the address bar. How does this work? There are two main ways: They check if a file is available at /favicon.ico They check if a proper link tag has been set:…

Despite the fact that most articles on this blog are about concrete5, I mostly work with Oracle and ERP applications with Oracle in the back. In my daily work with Oracle, I often find myself doing more or less the same tasks and sometimes I just want to …

Today’s article is about concrete5 again after a long time without anything about concrete5 on codeblog.ch. The example we’re going to look at takes a few ideas and code snippets from my book about concrete5. If you ever had a closer look at t…

Thank you Remo for writing a book about concrete5 and these tutorials. It took me a couple of days, but I managed to create my first drop down menu!

Thank you; just what I was after, and got it working first time. Great instructions.

Awesome! Thanks, Remo! I was looking for this exact kind of thing a few months back... I needed to add a button into the toolbar to link to a "hidden" page of training videos. Looks like this would do the trick... just change the 'href' in the on_start…

Line 17 can't be the line I've mentioned in your template, it would have to be below that! I also can't see how this should happen as getCollectionID was already in the code before, now it's just used twice! Is it possible that you completely replaced th…

Fatal error: Call to a member function getCollectionID() on a non-object in /home/sites/rootsearthworksandlandscaping.co.uk/public_html/concrete/blocks/autonav/templates/Nav.php on line 17