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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

A multilingual site


Internationalization and localization are two big issues for people who need to develop a multilingual site. Other than the simple text translation, a developer needs to know how the local standard formats—such as dates, numbers, or amounts—change from country to country. Internationalization and localization take care of these problems.

Internationalization

Internationalization, often referred to as i18n (the number represents the count of the letters in the word), is the practice of creating software so that it isn't hard-wired to one language, locale, or culture.

For example, the workflow of a contact form will work in the same way even if the page contains English or Italian text.

Fortunately, eZ Publish allows the implementation of internationalization for any single object that it can manage. This will help us in translating language templates, content objects, attributes, and much more.

Localization

The localization process (L10n) helps site administrators to assign...