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Professional Plone 4 Development

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Professional Plone 4 Development

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A years of experience in Plone development and project management are combined with an approachable writing style to create an engaging and highly-informative guide to working with Plone. Professional Plone 4 Development stands as an excellent resource for developers of all levels. - Eric Steele, Plone Release Manager Plone is a web content management system that features among the top 2% of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customising and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.If you want to create your own web applications and advanced websites using Plone 4, Professional Plone 4 Development is the book you need.The https://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book first edition of this book remains one of the most widely read and recommended Plone books. This second edition is completely revised and up-to-date for Plone 4.1, covering new topics such as Dexterity, Diazo, jQuery and z3c.form, as well as improved ways of working with existing technologies such as Buildout, SQLAlchemy and the Pluggable Authentication Service. It retains the writing style and comprehensive approach that made the first edition so popular. Built around a realistic case study, Professional Plone 4 Development will take you from an understanding of Plone’s central concepts, through basic customization, theming, and custom development, to deployment and optimization. The book is divided into four sections: First, you will be introduced to Plone and the case study, and learn how to set up a development environment. The second section covers basic customization, including theming a Plone site using Diazo. The third section focuses on custom development – building new content types and user interfaces, customizing security and integrating with external databases. The final chapters cover deployment and performance optimization.

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Professional Plone 4 Development
Aug, 2011 | 516 pages
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Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1
I. Getting Ready
I. Getting Ready
1. Plone in Context
2. Introduction to the Case Study
3. The Development Environment
2
II. Customizing Plone
II. Customizing Plone
4. Basics of Customization
5. Developing a Site Strategy
6. Security and Workflow
7. Using Add-ons
8. Creating a Custom Theme
3
III. Developing New Functionality
III. Developing New Functionality
9. Nine Core Concepts of Zope Programming
10. Custom Content Types
11. Standalone Views and Forms
12. Relational Databases
13. Users and their Permissions
14. Dynamic User Interfaces with jQuery
15. Summary and Potential Enhancements
4
IV. Real-world Deployments
IV. Real-world Deployments
16. Zope on the Server
17. Setting up a Production Server
18. Authenticating with LDAP or Active Directory
19. Looking to the Future
5
Index
Index

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The bootstrap.py script installs zc.buildout itself, and gives us the bin/buildout command."

A block of code is set as follows:

[instance]
eggs =
    Plone
    Products.PloneFormGen

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<browser:page
    name="list-contents"
    for=".interfaces.IMyType"
    layer=".interfaces.IMyLayer"
    permission="zope2.View"
    class=".browser.listcontents.ListContentsView"
    template="browser/listcontents.pt"
    />

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ bin/buildout -c somefile.cfg

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "It can be found on the Properties tab in the ZMI."

Note

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