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- Plone development fundamentals
- Customizing Plone
- Developing new functionality
- Real-world deployments
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 420 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : September 2007
ISBN : 1847191983
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847191-98-4
Author(s) : Martin Aspeli
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Content Management (CMS), Open Source, Plone, Python
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Plone in Context
Chapter 2: The Case Study
Chapter 3: The Development Environment
Chapter 4: Customization Basics
Chapter 5: Developing a Site Strategy
Chapter 6: Security and Workflow
Chapter 7: Using Add-on Products
Chapter 8: Creating a Custom Theme
Chapter 9: Nine Core Concepts of Zope Programming
Chapter 10: Custom Content Types
Chapter 11: Standalone Views and Forms
Chapter 12: Relational Databases
Chapter 13: Users and Their Permissions
Chapter 14: Rich User Interfaces with KSS
Chapter 15: Next Steps
Chapter 16: Server Management
Chapter 17: Setting Up a Production Server
Chapter 18: Authenticating with LDAP
Chapter 19: Looking to the Future
Index
Martin Aspeli
Professional Plone Development is a worthy addition to the library of any Plone administrator interested in making the most of their Plone installation Michael J. Ross, Web Developer
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
Find your book in our support section to find errata and to download code samples.
You will gain an in-depth understanding of the concepts that underpin successful Plone development, including:
- How to set up a suitable development environment
- The importance of automated testing of any code you write
- How to perform Plone customizations in a manageable, re-usable fashion
- Techniques for branding Plone and changing its look and feel
- How to safely install and manage third-party add-on components
- How to create your own content types
- How to create new forms and templates
- Ways of interacting with external relational databases
- Techniques for managing users and custom user metadata
- Using Plone’s new AJAX framework to build dynamic user interfaces
- How to set up Zope and Plone in a production environment
- How to connect to an LDAP/Active Directory repository for authentication
- How to configure a caching proxy to improve Plone's performance
Throughout the chapters, there is an emphasis on demonstrating key concepts with practical examples. The reader should be able to borrow from the examples to get up and running quickly, but refer to the explanations provided to fully appreciate what is going on under the hood.
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Plone is an open-source content management framework, built on the top of the Zope application server and written in Python. As a ready-to-use Content Management System with a focus on usability, Plone makes it easy for content authors to create and edit web content.
Plone is also used by developers, as a framework for building content-centric web applications such as dynamic websites and intranets. This book focuses primarily on the developer-oriented aspect of Plone.
This book aims to teach best practices of Plone development, focusing on Plone 3.0. It covers setting up a suitable development environment, customizing Plone’s look and feel, creating new content types and forms, connecting to external databases, and managing users and groups intelligently. It also shows how to configure a production-ready server, with LDAP authentication and caching.
Book Reviews
Slashdot: "There's a great deal to like about this book. The author clearly possesses the expertise and experience needed for providing instruction on a challenging topic such as this. His explanations are not abbreviated, as seen in so many other technical monographs. Furthermore, most programmers learn best by viewing and mentally dissecting sample code. For such people, Martin Aspeli's practical approach — focusing on a substantial sample application — will prove more engaging and instructive than the made-up and oftentimes overly simplistic examples found in many computer programming books — including the increasingly popular cookbook titles." -- Michael J. Ross, Web Developer, Slashdot.org
Vitaliy Podoba: "our programmers have gained a lot of relevant information. And there is a countless number of examples that can be provided here. They will definitely get even more trying all described in the book in practice working in Plone 3.0. "
David Handy: "Aspeli is good not just for facts but recommended best practices. So far I am in complete agreement with his philosophies. And especially, I am verypleased for once to be reading relevant, up to date material!"
Visit the Free Online Edition: http://professional-plone-book.packtpub.com for a full Table of Contents and summaries from each chapter.
The book takes a pragmatic approach, building a realistic example application based on a case study. The code for this application is included with the book, and should serve as a useful starting point and source of examples for the reader.
This book is aimed at developers who want to build content-centric web applications leveraging Plone’s proven user interface and flexible infrastructure.
Some familiarity with the Python programming language and basic web technologies such as HTML and CSS is assumed. Readers would also benefit from some prior experience with Zope or Plone, for example as site administrators or “power usersâ€.
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