Would you like to store database schemas in a portable, agnostic way? Use Doctrine XML – an XML format for describing databases in XML using Doctrine conventions.

Assets, Block Types, CSS Customization, Dashboard, Elemental, Front-End

Now that you know how to prepare your backend code for 5.7, let's delve into the user facing stuff.

concrete5 5.7 is a huge release for PHP developers. Learn more about how we're integrating Composer, Symfony2 components, namespacing and modernizing our own code base.

Enough is changing in concrete5 5.7 that add-on developers will have to go through a little bit of work to make their add-ons work with the new code. It'll be worth it, and this guide will help you get started.

An interview I did last year with Michael Gray just came out in PHP Solutions Magazine! Read on if you're interested in PHP frameworks and some thoughts on programming in general.

First, a bit of history, then a breakdown of what we've done to make concrete5 so much faster in this new release.

We come in #1 in their CMS showdown.

concrete5 5.5 makes it easy to create your own installation sample content with a new file format we call CIF: content import format.

Anyone want to install concrete5 from the command line? 5.5 and our command line installer will let you do just that.