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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

Extension portability


As from eZ Publish 3.8 version, you can install extensions through the packages. This system is very useful because you can install your, or third-party extensions in a very simple way through a convenient graphical interface.

From the eZ Publish backend, you can create new packages that can be used in other installations or can be freely distributed through the eZ.no site.

To deliver our extensions and our custom classes (created in Chapter 2), we need to create two types of packages. The first one is the content classes package that will include the definition of our custom classes. The second is an extension package that will include our entire extensions, including the content class package that we previously created.

Content class package

First of all, we can make a content class package into which we can save the content class definition that we customized in the previous chapters.

The content class package is basically an archive containing all of the enhancement...