Content Management System & Conference Management GNU GPLv3

u5CMS

Video Tutorial

u5CMS Video Introduction (English) or YouTube
u5CMS Video-Einführung (German) or YouTube

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Download and Installation

u5CMS PHP files for installation (ZIP 7.7 MB)
Version 12.5.6, February 29, 2024
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u5CMS — How to update an existing installation (version 4 and above)
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These update instructions are for u5CMS versions 4 and above. For versions below 4 read this!

  1. On your server, go to the files of your old (current) u5CMS installation and copy config.php to config.old.php
  2. Download the ZIP-File , unzip it and delete the file favicon.ico
  3. Further, delete all contents in folder r EXCEPT runonce.php
  4. Transfer the remaining files and folders from the ZIP file over the existing installation (FTP upload)
  5. Now, on your server, copy the database connection parameters $host $username $password $db from config.old.php to config.php
    If there are other dedicated settings in config.old.php, set the same in config.php (compare parameter by parameter)
  6. You must now log in to the backend of your (now updated) u5CMS installation via https://urltoyouru5cmsfrontend/u5admin and open a css-object (e. g. csslayout) in PIDVESA
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    PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen.
    PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen; cf short reference (pdf)
    's S code section, for your site to work correctly again.
  7. You must now log in to the backend of your (now updated) u5CMS installation via https://urltoyouru5cmsfrontend/u5admin for that the database will be updated too

TROUBLE SHOOTING
A) If the layout does not look right after having done step 7, go to https://urltoyouru5cmsfrontend/u5admin and open a css-object (e. g. csslayout) in PIDVESA
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PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen.
PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen; cf short reference (pdf)
's S special function's code (htmltemplate & css) section and safe it!
B) If your navigation does not look well, copy this code to cssnavleft in PIDVESA
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PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen.
PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen; cf short reference (pdf)
's→S→Code and this code to cssnavleftsubtop in PIDVESA
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PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen.
PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen; cf short reference (pdf)
's→S→Code and this code to cssnavtop in PIDVESA
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PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen.
PIDVESA: The very right column of your u5CMS backend is your repository. PIDVESA stands for Pages, Images, Documents, Videos, External Links, Special Functions, and Account. Find these things by clicking the respective radios P I D V E S or A in the top right corner of your backend screen; cf short reference (pdf)
's→S→Code

C) If after A) and B) the layout still does not look right, change the doctype <!DOCTYPE html> to the old one
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Short Reference

u5CMS Short Reference, English (pdf)

Build a web application with u5CMS without programming skills

It is very easy to build a web application yourself with u5CMS. Let users log in, enter data, edit data again and publish data. Your web application interacts with the u5CMS database without you having to worry about it. To get started, run the Tutorial and then the Scenario 2.

User Manual

User Manual English
Benutzerhandbuch deutsch

Online Documentation

Advanced functionalities (e. g. PayPal, Database, Forms, Serial Mail)
u5CMS & SSL TSL (force HTTPS)

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Content Management System u5CMS

Service

English⇄German Translation Service

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