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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

Star Rating


Star Rating is an extension that allows the addition of a rating system to your eZ Publish content objects via a datatype. This extension uses Ajax calls through the xajax extension to save the vote without reloading the page, and checks the user's session to ensure that he or she doesn't vote more than once.

To use this extension, we only need to add the Star Rating attribute to the content class that we want to be rated, and update its view template.

Note

This extension will be soon replaced by the eZ Star Rating (http://projects.ez.no/ezstarrating) that will use the new functionality of the forthcoming eZ Publish 4.2.

You can download Star Rating from http://ez.no/developer/contribs/applications/star_rating.