Professional Plone Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Plone in Context
• A Brief History
• Competition
• Plone-the-Application and Plone-the-Framework
• Additional Considerations when Deciding on Plone
• Licensing
• The Plone Community, and Why You Belong There
• Summary

• Chapter 2: The Case Study
• High-Level Requirements
• Modeling and Mock-Ups
• Running the Project
• Summary

• Chapter 3: The Development Environment
• Prerequisites
• Quick Start
• Glossary
• Creating a Zope Instance Manually
• Understanding Eggs and Setuptools
• Installing Eggs
• Automating the Build Process with zc.buildout
• Installing Paste Script and ZopeSkel
• Creating and Customizing the Buildout
• The Buildout Configuration File
• The Buildout Directory
• Avoiding Duplication between Buildouts
• Additional Development Tools
• Learning to Help Yourself
• Use the Source, Luke!
• Become Familiar with the Debugger
• Write Tests for Everything
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Customization Basics
• Persistent Settings and the ZODB
• Configuration Using GenericSetup
• GenericSetup and the Add/Remove Products Control Panel
• Acquisition and Skin Layers
• Overriding Zope 3 Components
• Customization Best Practices
• Using Source Control
• Writing Tests
• Migration of Persistent State
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Developing a Site Strategy
• Creating a "Policy Product"
• Creating an Extension Profile
• Writing Tests for Customizations
• Making a Change with the Extension Profile
• Installation through the Web
• Information Architecture
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Security and Workflow
• Security Primitives
• Users and Groups
• Permissions
• Roles
• Manipulating Permissions and Roles Programmatically
• Keeping Control with Workflow
• Using Workflow from Python
• Custom Workflow Installation
• Designing a New Workflow
• Amending the Policy Product
• Writing the Tests
• Protected and Trusted Code
• Restricted Python
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Using Add-on Products
• Finding and Evaluating Products
• Playing it Safe
• Installing a Product
• Adding RichDocument
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Creating a Custom Theme
• Background
• The Theme Package
• Adding a Test to the Policy Product
• Theme Product Contents
• Tools and Techniques
• Building the Theme
• Custom CSS Style Sheets
• Using "base_properties" and DTML Variables in Style Sheets
• Image Resources
• Managing Viewlets
• Defining Viewlet Managers
• Reassigning Viewlets
• Creating New Viewlets
• Overriding Visual Elements
• Templates and Other Resources in Skin Layers
• Zope 3-Style Browser Views
• Viewlets
• Portlets
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Nine Core Concepts of Zope Programming
• 1. Object Publishing and Traversal
• Containment
• Acquisition Chains
• Path Traversal
• 2. ZODB Persistence
• Transactions
• Object Persistence
• 3. Searching Objects Using the Catalog
• 4. Describing Functionality with Interfaces
• Using Interfaces in Catalog Searches
• 5. Component Configuration with ZCML
• 6. Component Registries Using Utilities
• Global Utilities
• Named Utilities
• Local Utilities
• Tools
• 7. Aspect-oriented Programming with Adapters
• Multi-adapters
• Named Adapters
• Adapter Factories
• 8. Views and Other Presentation Components
• Content Providers and Viewlets
• 9. Synchronous Events
• Object Events
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Custom Content Types
• Content-Centric Design
• Package Layout
• Modeling with Interfaces
• Using the Archetypes Framework
• Content Base Classes
• Schemata, Fields, and Widgets
• Vocabularies
• Reference Fields
• Field and Object Validation
• The Class Generator
• Field Properties
• Content Security
• Views and Browser Resources
• Icons and Style Sheets
• Main Content Views
• Inline Editing
• Edit Forms, Add Forms, and Events
• Installing and Registering Types
• Factories and Add Permissions
• Registering Content Types with the Factory Tool
• Adding Catalog Indexes and Metadata Columns
• Installation and Configuration in the Policy Product
• Adjusting the Security Policy
• Adjusting Navigation Tree Properties
• Enabling Content Object Versioning
• Site Policy Tests
• Functional Tests
• Creating a New Portlet
• Configuring and Registering New Portlet Types
• Assigning Portlets Automatically
• Zope 3, Formlib, and the Role of Archetypes
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Standalone Views and Forms
• Pages Without a Specific Context
• Templates in Skin Layers
• Views Available on All Objects
• Views on the Portal Root
• Invoking Standalone Pages
• Writing Custom Forms
• Checking Form Submit Buttons
• Form Input Converters
• Performing Redirects
• Automatically Generating Forms
• The Form Controller Tool
• Forms in Viewlets
• Global Template Variables and Helper Views
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Relational Databases
• Relational Databases vs. the ZODB
• Modeling Screenings and Reservations
• Screening Query and Reservation Services
• Setting Up the Database
• SQLAlchemy—Turning SQL Lead into Python Gold
• Managing Database Connections
• Making a New Plone Control Panel
• Writing the Database Utilities
• Database Tests
• Querying the Database
• Updating and Inserting Records
• Adding the User Interface
• Updating the Film and Cinema Views
• Screenings and Bookings
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Users and Their Permissions
• Defining a Membership Policy
• Updating the Site Policy Product
• Managing Member Metadata
• Collaborative Workspaces
• Advanced Member Management Options
• The Pluggable Authentication Service
• Membrane and Remember
• Summary

• Chapter 14: Rich User Interfaces with KSS
• Understanding KSS
• KSS-Enabling Film Ratings
• The Kinetic Style Sheet
• Page Template Markup
• Server-Side Logic
• Debugging KSS
• Tests for KSS Commands
• A Brief KSS Reference
• Kinetic Style Sheet Syntax
• Standard Events
• Client-Side Actions
• Parameter Functions
• Server-Side Commands
• The 'core' Command Set
• The 'zope' Command Set
• The 'plone' Command Set
• KSS-Enabling the "my cinema" Functionality
• Summary

• Chapter 15: Next Steps
• Our Achievements So Far
• Additional Functionality
• Discussion and Participation
• Additional Reporting
• More Advanced Ticketing
• New Content Types
• Internationalization
• Translating Content
• Translating User Interface Strings
• Summary

• Chapter 16: Server Management
• Deployment Checklist
• Zope Enterprise Objects
• A Deployment Buildout
• Moving the Code and Database to a Live Server
• Zope as a Service
• Backups and Database Maintenance
• Summary

• Chapter 17: Setting Up a Production Server
• Virtual Hosting
• Using Zope Only
• Zope behind Apache
• Configuring Virtual Hosting and RewriteRules in Apache
• Caching
• Setting Up CacheFu
• Caching the Optilux Content Types and Views
• Using Varnish as a Caching Reverse Proxy
• Adjusting the Apache Configuration
• Varnish via Buildout
• Benchmarking
• Summary

• Chapter 18: Authenticating with LDAP
• LDAP and Active Directory
• Setting up a Test Environment
• Connecting Plone to an LDAP Repository
• Configuring PAS Plug-ins Manually
• Summary

• Chapter 19: Looking to the Future
• Making Future Releases
• Managing Migrations
• Migration Profiles
• Our Achievements
• Where to Go Next
• Summary

• Index