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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

Chapter 4. Creating Content Structure

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

In Chapter 1, we installed eZ Publish; in Chapter 2, we configured the site access; and in the Chapter 3, we created the content class we have to use. Now it's time to use all of the work we did to create the new enterprise-level site for our Packt Media magazine. But before that, to better understand what we will do next, we'll introduce the eZ Publish backend and its publishing-related functionality.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Learn how to use the eZ Publish backend

  • Look at creating the default content structure for the magazine

  • Add some initial content, so that we can use the content classes that we created in the last chapter

To begin with, let's open a browser and go to the administration panel of eZ Publish, at http://packtmediaproject/index.php/ezwebin_site_admin.

Understanding the backend

In Chapter 3, we focused on the Setup tab, and created...