What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing eZ Publish: This chapter will look at the processes involved in installing eZ Publish for the magazine project, including hosting requirements. The choices that need to be made during installation will also be covered.

Chapter 2, Creating Our Site Accesses: What are siteaccesses? When we work on a customer site it is useful to have different environments available to show your customer what we are doing. In this chapter, we'll create some simple site access rules to manage these areas. We will also take a deeper look at what site accesses are, and how they work.

Chapter 3, Defining and Creating Content Classes: This chapter will introduce us to the standard content classes of eZ Publish. We will also learn to create the required classes, for the additional structured content, as defined by the project.

Chapter 4, Creating Content Structure: This chapter will look at creating the default content structure for the magazine, as well as adding some initial content, so that we can see the structure and layout of various default content classes. We'll also introduce the eZ Publish backend and its functionality.

Chapter 5 Creating an Extension: We will create an extension to hold all of our customizations for this project, which is much better than working in the standard folders and will help us in any future system upgrade.

Chapter 6 Template Design: In this chapter, we will see how to apply a template to a single content or to a node folder. We will also take a look at the template overrides, and creating a design extension.

Chapter 7 Template Content Classes: Custom templates for content approval and checkout processes are important concepts in many eZ Publish undertakings, and will be featured in this chapter. We will also create a custom template for both a standard class and a custom class.

Chapter 8 Adding Community Forums: In this chapter we'll take a look at the built-in forums available through the ezwebin packages. We will implement these content classes and templates, and then work on them further, adding functionality that was not previously included in eZ Publish 4.0, but which will be useful to the magazine.

Chapter 9 Internationalization and localization: This chapter provides a brief overview of the internationalization capabilities of eZ Publish. We will implement some additional language translations for our customers who may be visiting and looking to enroll at the magazine.

Chapter 10 Creating Roles and Privileges: After all of this defining and creating, we need to actually get useful content into the system. There are a number of approaches to do so, and this chapter will cover the main ones in detail, with a short discussion on other methods.

Chapter 11 Cache configuration: The cache system is one of the most important subsystems of eZ Publish. In this chapter, we will explain how to use it and how to customize it for our needs.

Chapter 12 Deployment: The deployment chapter investigates the processes associated with deploying our development site to production.

Appendix A, APC Tuning for eZ Publish: eZ Publish, to publish the web pages, has to elaborate a lot of data. This work, in some cases, can be a CPU-eater and may slow down the response of the server. For this reason, we will learn how to install and use an opcode cache system, such as APC.

Appendix B, Advance Debugging: During the development of the eZ Publish site, it is very important to receive immediate feedback about what we are doing. We will learn how to enable and use the code debugger and the template debugger that are included in the CMF.

Appendix C, eZ Publish Extensions: We will introduce some of the best extensions developed by the eZ Publish community.