eZ Publish provides developers with a structure to build highly impressive applications and then quickly deploy them into a live environment. eZ Publish is complex, with a steep learning curve, but with the right direction it offers great flexibility and power. What makes eZ Publish special is not the long list of features, but what's going on behind the scenes.
Created specifically for newcomers to eZ Publish, and using an example Magazine web site, this book focuses on designing, building and deploying eZ Publish to create an enterprise site quickly and easily.
This tutorial takes eZ Publish's steep learning curve head-on, and walks you through the process of designing and building content-rich web sites. It makes the unrivalled power and flexibility of eZ Publish accessible to all developers.
The book is organized around technical topics, which are handled in depth, with a general progression that follows the learning experience of the reader, and features a single magazine web site project from installation to completion and deployment. This hands-on guide helps the reader to understand the Content Management System to create a web 2.0-ready web site by creating new extensions or overriding the existing ones. In turn, it helps you to become confident when working in the eZ Publish administration area and offers an environment in which you can practice while working through the chapters.
Install and configure an eZ Publish CMS
Manage content classes and create a content structure for your site
Leverage the extensibility of the eZ Publish CMS to create extensions thereby making projects reusable and portable
Handle a powerful subscription system that allows your users to subscribe to site updates
Learn the basics eZ Publish s templating system and the design override feature
Make use of the Online Editor to edit objects through an easy-to-use interface
Manage the templates and styles in your system through web-based management
Customize custom class views through the override system and the template engine
Tweak your server to bring out the full power of the CMS
Use the powerful RSS module that allows you to create RSS feeds from any part of your content tree
Upload and download content from the eZ Publish server directly from your WebDAV client
Even if you are not a PHP-guru, and you don't want to study eZ Publish core functionality ñ this book is for you. In general, however, you'll get more out of the book if you know a little PHP, have some concept of Object-Oriented Programming, and have a general familiarity with CMS concepts.