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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

Introduction to the content template


In the previous chapter, we saw that eZ Publish offers an out of the box template standard set. With this set of templates, it's possible to render all of the system module views correctly.

There are two template types. The first is the content template, which is used from every system module. For example, the view to see the items list of feed module. The second is the "node system template", which is used by the content module to see the object content published on the tree. This template is very important because the "content" module is the main module of the system. This module manages all of the actions on the object, such as publishing, moving, coping, deleting, and so on. It also manages the override system, through which it is possible to override the standard view for each rendered object.

We'll use the "node template" for our custom classes, and we'll also override the standard template without using custom templates.

The system provides different...