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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

Customizing our class templates


After creating our template files, it is time to edit the HTML and logic, in order to create our own custom classes (profile) and standard classes (folder, article) views in the issue section that will have a different appearance to the standard layout.

Now, we will look at the code of most complex classes, according to the override rules that we previously created.

Staff profile template

For the Staff class, we'll have two main views: the line view and the full view. We can start from the line view template.

Line template

To modify the template, we must open the extension/packtmedia/design/magazine/override/templates/line/profile.tpl file, and add the following code:

<div class="content-view-line">
<div class="class-profile">
<h2>
<a href={$node.url_alias|ezurl} title="{$node.name}">
{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.firstname}
{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.lastname}
</a>
</h2>
{attribute_view_gui...