Rawnet lead developer James Crooke explains what is Concrete 5, and what in particular is new and of value in version 5.7

1. Aggregate bonded
together with a fluid
cement v7
aka v7

2. 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

3. 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 2014
v5.7 Alpha
12/09/14
v5.7
“Stable”
Present Day
v5.7.5
March 2014
v5.6.3.1

4. 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

5. New / Improved Features in V5.7
Cool StuffDevelopers
Multilingual Translations Manager
CSS Customisation

6. New / Improved Features in V5.7
Cool StuffDevelopers
New Redactor editor
Ace Editor

8. 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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