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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

Set up the feeds


A feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently-updated content, such as news for a site, or posts for a blog. A feed can be provided in different formats, such as RSS or ATOM, and can be subscribed by a user with a feed reader application.

Adding feeds to a site is very important because it provides users with the latest content without them having to visit the site.

By default, eZ Publish doesn't provide a self-generated feed. However, it does provide an option for the site administrator to enable one from the administration interface.

Moreover, any node of the content tree can be used to generate a feed, through a very flexible system that can handle any kind of content class.

We will add a feed to the forums and the blog, choosing the best class attributes for both.

Creating the blog feed

Log in to the backend. From the Setup tab, we will click on the RSS link in the left-hand sidebar.

Next, click on the New Export button and complete the...