Cookbooks

Frontend cookbook

These cookbook entries contain valuable nuggets of information regarding the frontend development of a site.

• Implementing a simple contact form
• How to add a custom Content Block
• Updating form field from a dialog
• Enabling Growl Notifications
• Add Chat to Your Zotonic Site
• Modifying an existing module
• Page-specific dynamic backgrounds
• Retrieving the category of a page
• Share variable binding across blocks
• Managing redirection after login and signup
• Displaying a site map
• Site-specific signup actions
• Dynamic select options using a wired template

Admin cookbook

• Customizing the layout of an admin edit page
• Customizing the style of an admin page
• Storing date/time fields

Shell cookbook

• Activate/deactivate modules
• Filter and convert characters
• Erlang tab completion
• Debugging db (query) issues
• Reset a user’s password
• Restore/upgrade content db from backup

Just enough...

These Cookbook items each represent a stage in some Zotonic users’ journeys to understand the workings of Erlang and related technologies in general.

• Just enough Erlang/OTP and rebar, part 1
• Just enough Erlang/OTP and rebar, part 2
• Just enough Postgres
• Just Enough Regular Expressions (in Erlang)
• Just enough Erlang shell
• Just enough Webmachine