CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook

Over 70 simple but incredibly effective recipes for extending CMS Made Simple with detailed explanations – useful for beginners and experts alike!

Key Features

• Build new modules and tags, and use the built-in capabilities of CMS Made Simple to their fullest
• Provides complete examples as well as educational starting points for your own projects
• Designed to give you an understanding of the entire system
• Covers CMS Made Simple version 1.9x
• Step-by-step “recipes” along with detailed explanations

Book Description

What you will learn

• Use template logic to achieve complex functionality without installing anything beyond the CMS Made Simple core
• Create tags to achieve such varied tasks as filtering content and interacting with web services
• Write fully-localizable modules in a maintainable and memory-efficient fashion
• Interact with the underlying database using the API for safe, platform-independent access
• Render and process complex forms and user interfaces with the Form API
• Share your work with the community via the Developer s Forge and shared source-control repositories
• Build admin-side panels so site administrators can manage and configure your module
• Trigger and handle events for complex interactions with tags and modules

Who this book is for

If you are a CMS Made Simple user wanting to expand your skill set, or a programmer who wants to develop for CMS Made Simple, this book is for you. You will need working knowledge of PHP, HTML, and SQL. Some experience with CMS Made Simple is recommended.