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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 content tree


As we learned in the secondary menu, which is located on the left-hand side of the Content Structure section, we can easily create a content tree by using a folder/object paradigm.

Now let's work on the content tree of our site.

The "Issue archive" section

We decided that we need a container for all of the past and, of course, future issues of our magazine. This container will include folders for each year (2007, 2008, 2009...), which will in turn contain subfolders based on months, into which our articles will be placed.

This simple structure will allow us to easily group the articles by issue, and use the inner functionality of the eZ Publish templating system.

To create the Issue archive section, we need to left-click on the site's root folder in the secondary menu, to display the context menu. We will select the Create here | Folder option from the context menu.

The CMS will ask us which language we want to use. Select the default language you chose in the installation chapter...