eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

Master eZ Publish s flexible web development for the enterprise

Key Features

• Build an enterprise-level eZ Publish web site
• Improve user experience via better information architecture and improved visual design
• Learn the secrets of the eZ Publish templating system to design your own pages
• Leverage the extensibility of the eZ Publish CMS
• Covers the full range of services, knowledge sharing, and support to create your own commercial solutions

Book Description

What you will learn

• Install and configure an eZ Publish CMS
• Manage content classes and create a content structure for your site
• Leverage the extensibility of the eZ Publish CMS to create extensions thereby making projects reusable and portable
• Handle a powerful subscription system that allows your users to subscribe to site updates
• Learn the basics eZ Publish s templating system and the design override feature
• Make use of the Online Editor to edit objects through an easy-to-use interface
• Manage the templates and styles in your system through web-based management
• Customize custom class views through the override system and the template engine
• Tweak your server to bring out the full power of the CMS
• Use the powerful RSS module that allows you to create RSS feeds from any part of your content tree
• Upload and download content from the eZ Publish server directly from your WebDAV client

Who this book is for

This book is written for beginners to eZ Publish who need to work on an enterprise-level site with a complex publishing workflow. This book is best for people who want to use eZ Publish from scratch without hard-core programming skills.
Even if you are not a PHP-guru, and you don't want to study eZ Publish core functionality ñ this book is for you. In general, however, you'll get more out of the book if you know a little PHP, have some concept of Object-Oriented Programming, and have a general familiarity with CMS concepts.