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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

Packt Media Site's content class


We learned what content classes are, and now we have to create our own classes by customizing the existing ones, or creating new ones from scratch.

But first, we need to understand what we need in our site.

We will describe the Packt Media Site as the site of a youth magazine that decided to move onto the Web after some years of success in the paper market.

The magazine will publish all of the articles based on a precise editorial program. Moreover, the readers will have the possibility to comment on them in a dedicated forum.

The last point we have to fulfill is that all of the members of the editorial staff want a personal profile page where they can show their own articles and some personal data. With this information, and taking a look at the default content classes that eZ Publish gives us, the only thing we have to do is creating a personal profile page from scratch.

Creating the profile content class

We have to open the browser again and log in to the administration...