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Here are some tutorials and other info on how to use the various parts of Elefant:

General

Installation

• Getting started
  • Installing Elefant on PHP Fog
  • Installing Elefant on DotCloud
  • Installing Elefant on PHPCloud.com
• Requirements
• Troubleshooting
• Support forum
• Support chat group

User interface

• The page editor
• Screenshots

Miscellaneous

• Installing new apps
• Configuring the blog app
• Folder layout
• Feature list
• Future

Designers

• Setting up your custom designs
  • Building a layout file from scratch
  • Creating editable areas
  • Creating dynamic navigation
  • Page object
• Making shared themes
• Configuring Facebook, Twitter and Google logins
• White labelling the CMS

Developers

Overview

• Elefant design principles
• Elefant architecture
• Code conventions
• Contributing

Essentials

• Cheat sheet
• API reference
• Autoloading and namespaces

Core libraries

• Page routing and handler basics
• Database API and models
• Templates
• Forms and input validation
• Validation in Models
• Internationalization
• Error handling, debugging, and reporting

Additional features

• Hooks and WebHooks
• Notifications
• Command line usage
• App configurations
• Memcache
• Installing and upgrading apps
• Dynamic handlers and the wysiwyg editor
• Setting up dev, staging, production environments
• Command line utility

Tutorials

• Code example: Hello world
• Code example: Events
• Code example: Authorizing users
• Custom user pages
• Custom user properties
• Version control basics
• Locking items while editing
• Elefant with Backbone.js
• RESTful APIs (formerly Building a REST API for use via AJAX)
• Elefant with other frameworks
• Custom user authentication

Comparing frameworks

• Performance
• Elefant compared to Symfony2
• Comparison to Sitellite CMS