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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

Extension packages


In this second step, we have to make our extension a package file.

As we can see, at the moment, the extension file is empty because our extension has only a folder structure. When we finish our job, we will need to carry out this step again, in order to have the complete extension.

To create an extension package, we need to follow the same steps that we saw earlier. The only change needed is when we have to choose the type of package to create, where we have to select the Extension export option button.

Next, we need to select the packtmedia option button, which is the extension that we want to export.

All of other steps are the same as for the Content Class package, and in the end, we can save this file in our computer. This file could be useful for re-using the same layout and extension in other projects, or to sell or distribute our extension.