Tutorials – Learning Composr

Code Book, part 3 (Miscellany)
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The programmer's guide for Composr development. Miscellaneous technical guidance.
by Chris
1st January 2006
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Code Book, part 1b (Further back-end concepts)
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The programmer's guide for Composr development. Back-end development, part 2.
by Chris
1st January 2006
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Code Book, contents and introduction
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The programmer's guide for Composr development. Contents and Introduction.
by Chris
1st January 2006
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Optimising Performance
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Composr is very heavily optimised for high performance out-of-the-box, but here are some advanced performance tips.
1st August 2008
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Code Book, part 2 (Front-end)
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The programmer's guide for Composr development. Front-end development.
1st January 2006
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

eCommerce
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Use the eCommerce system to sell things. Usergroup subscription and member invoicing are available out-of-the-box.
by Chris
1st August 2008
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Writing mini-modules
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How to code simple PHP pages in Composr.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st May 2015
Core Doc; Difficulty: Regular

A PHP/Composr coding primer
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A worked guide to writing new PHP code for Composr.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st May 2015
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Regular

Conposr and Conposr++
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Introducing the Conposr and Conposr++ frameworks.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st April 2019
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Code Book, part 1a (Core back-end programming)
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The programmer's guide for Composr development. Back-end development, part 1.
by Chris
1st January 2006
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Making an addon (part 3)
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The third in a series of practical tutorials showing how to create addons.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st August 2008
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual
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If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level—creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL.
by Brett
Tags: Development, PHP
2nd January 2015
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Inline links to attachments (WYSIWYG)
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This tutorial shows how to add attachments with text-embedded links to open them, rather than displaying them as an embed or in a box.
by Chris
20th July 2017
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Regular

Mobile apps via Composr Mobile SDK
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Composr Mobile SDK is the toolkit for building mobile apps that connect to a Composr-powered website.
by ocProducts
1st January 2016
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Implementing a "Shopping discounts" feature
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A live programming tutorial, implementing a new "discounts" feature into the shopping catalogues. Shows you how coding for Composr gets done.
by Chris
2nd January 2015
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Introduction to Cookies and sessions (and JavaScript)
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Want to know everything there is to know about cookies and sessions? You probably don't, but if you do, read this!
1st August 2008
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Using Composr's WYSIWYG editor
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A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor is a document editor where the editor's editing interface roughly mirrors the appearance of the final document. Composr is using CKEditor as Composr's WYSIWYG editor.
20th July 2017
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Regular

Using Enums with MySQL
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How to use MySQL database enums within Composr.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st May 2014
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Making an addon (part 1)
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The first in a series of practical tutorials showing how to create addons.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st August 2008
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Introduction to programming
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This huge tutorial serves as an introduction to programming, with a particular emphasis on PHP.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st August 2008
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Aligning images in the WYSIWYG editor
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How to align images left or right in the WYSIWYG editor.
by Chris
20th July 2017
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Regular

Making an addon (part 2)
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The second in a series of practical tutorials showing how to create addons.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st August 2008
Auxillary Doc; Difficulty: Expert

The Composr programming framework
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Composr is not just a web application, but also a programming framework. Find out how the puzzle pieces fit together.
by Chris
Tags: Development, PHP
1st August 2008
Core Doc; Difficulty: Expert

Manually editing your database with phpMyAdmin
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A primer on databases, and how SQL is used to connect to them - as well as practical advice on using phpMyAdmin.
by Chris
1st August 2008
Core Doc; Difficulty: Regular

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