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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Advance Debugging

Policies, roles, and groups


When we work in a big company, everyone has his or her own role, tasks, and permissions. For example, an advertising guy will never touch a server, and a web designer will not write a contract. eZ Publish is like a big company, where the administrator can do everything, or can delegate specific tasks to users or group of users. This behavior is called ACL (Access Control List) and is based on roles, policies, and groups.

Moreover, as in any big company, eZ Publish needs to verify that its employee is who he claims to be, and needs to allow him to read the content that he can access.

Luckily, eZ Pubish has these features natively integrated into its core, as user account management.

Policies

A policy is an atomic right that allows a user to use a given functionality of a module, for example, to create a new blog post in the blog. A policy is based on three parts: a module name, the name of one of the functions of the module, and a permission on that function. If we...