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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

What is an extension?


In eZ Publish, an extension is like a plugin through which you can add new functionality to the CMS without changing the standard software kernel. The eZ Publish extension system is very powerful, as it allows the CMS to be extended in different ways, such as adding new features, or changing the standard behavior of the system's basic functionality.

With this system, you can keep the CMS constantly upgraded to the latest version without the fear of losing your code. In fact, in most cases, the extension will continue to run and in the worst case, you should also upgrade the extension to make it compatible with the new version.

Extension type

It's possible to create different kind of extensions, such as:

  • Operator: This extends the standard template operators. (We will talk about them in detail in the next chapter.) For example, we can make new operator that can work with a string, or that can connect to external web services to perform some routine such as downloading...