derouck / banner

A simple Banner plugin for Croogo

Croogo: Banner Plugin

Banner is a free, open source, banner that sits on top of the Croogo content management system for PHP, released under [MIT License].

It is powered by CakePHP MVC framework.

Requirements

• Apache with mod_rewrite
• PHP 5.2 or higher
• MySQL 4.1 or higher
• Croogo 2.0 or higher

Installation

Web based installer

• Upload the .zip file through Croogo's extension manager.

Dependencies

• Install the Croogo Assets plugin (https://github.com/xintesa/Assets) for the management of images

Manual installation

• Extract the archive. Upload the content to your Croogo installation in the ./app/Plugins/Banner directory. # git clone https://github.com/chrisderouck/banner.git ./app/Plugin/Banner
• visit Croogo's extension system to "activate" the plugin.

Usage

• Create a node for a certain type
• Add a featuredImage throughs Assets Plugin
• Create a block with a selector in the content field which has your nodes e.g. [node:banner-head conditions=Node.type:blog;Node.status:1 order=Node.id DESC; limit=3 element=Banner.photo-banner]
• Make sure your block is loaded somewhere in your layout

Links

• Official website: http://www.2minds.be
• Downloads: https://github.com/chrisderouck/banner/downloads