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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

Environments


When we work on an enterprise application, it is always useful to work in three separate environments:

  • Development environment

  • Staging environment

  • Production environment

Basically, an environment is a server configured for specific purposes (for example, to allow users to use a site or develop a new one).

You can also add more environments, such as Integration platform environment, where different teams would test if their code works fine together; usually, only these three are really needed.

Development environment

This first environment is the one in which we will work. Usually, this environment has installed libraries useful for a development task, such as XDebug PHP module, but is totally useless, or even problematic, in a production server. For example, an enabled XDebug PHP module will slow down our production server, while adding overhead to every PHP execution. If you don't have a development server, this environment should be the computer where you create your whole application...