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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

The override system


The override system is able to load different kinds of content node views instead of the standard view, based on defined rules.

Creating a template override

In our project, we can override the standard views for the following standard and custom classes:

  • Class Profile with full, line, and embed views

  • Class Folder for the "Issue Year" section with a full view

  • Class Folder for the "Issues" section with thumb, full, line, and embed views

  • Class Folder for the "Issue Archive" section with full and embed views

  • Class Article with full, line, and embed views

Usually, the full view is used to view a content node with all of its attributes. (We can think of a full content node view as a static HTML page of that element.) The line view is used to view the content node in a list, for example, if we want to see all articles published in a given year. The embed view is used if we want to attach a content node to another content node description attribute.

To create our override rules, we...