Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Installing eZ Publish
• What is eZ Publish?
• What is a CMF?
• eZ Publish packages
• eZ Webin—the out of the box CMS
• eZ Flow—web publishing for news and media portals
• Installation
• Hosting requirements
• Software required
• Hardware required
• PHP configuration
• Shared versus dedicated hosting
• eZ components
• Setting up
• Unpacking the installation
• Initializing the database
• Apache virtual host settings
• Image settings
• Cron jobs
• Configuration files
• The setup wizard
• Welcome to eZ Publish
• System check
• Email settings
• Choose a database
• Database initialization
• Language support
• Site packages
• Site access configuration
• Site details
• Site security
• Site registration
• Finished
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Creating Our Siteaccesses
• What is the siteaccess system?
• Siteaccess folder structure
• Enterprise siteaccess schema
• Creating siteaccesses for dev and staging
• Creating symbolic links
• Configuring the database parameters

• Creating multilingual siteaccesses
• Copying the configuration file
• Editing ini files for locale components

• Selecting a siteaccess using host or URI-based matching
• URI
• Setting the default siteaccess
• Host

• Summary

• Chapter 3: Defining and Creating Content Classes
• Managing the content
• Separation of content and design
• Content structure in eZ Publish
• Object-oriented content
• eZ Publish content classes
• Class attributes
• Content class management
• Content class structure
• Packt Media Site's content class
• Creating the profile content class
• Extending the Article class
• The other content classes
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Creating Content Structure
• Understanding the backend
• Content structure
• The secondary menu
• The content area
• The content tree
• The "Issue archive" section
• Editing an object
• Adding more folders
• The staff section
• Creating an article
• Publish and Unpublish date
• Enabling comments
• The feedback form
• Other sections
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Creating an Extension
• What is an extension?
• Extension type
• The directory structure of an extension
• Build the extension
• Settings extension
• Design an extension
• Template operator extension
• Translations extension
• Activating an extension
• Manual activation
• Backend activation
• Design activation
• Extension portability
• Content class package
• Extension packages
• Business with extensions
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Creating a Design
• eZ Publish templating
• Templating
• The templating markup
• Control structure operators
• Fetch functions
• Generic template functions and operators
• Creating a new design
• The homepage
• Issue page
• The issue archive
• The staff profile page
• eZ Webin
• Overriding the standard page layout
• Section for our project
• Creating a new section
• Setting up the section permission access
• Customizing the page layout
• CSS editing
• Creating a new style package
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Template Content Class
• Introduction to the content template
• The override system
• Creating a template override
• Creating a template override from a graphic interface
• Creating a template override manually
• Profile class
• Folder class for the issue year archive
• Folder class for issue
• Folder class for the issue archive section
• Article class
• Frontpage embed object
• Creating our custom template file
• Customizing our class templates
• Staff profile template
• Line template
• Full template
• Embed template
• Issue template
• Line template
• Full template
• Thumb template
• Embed template
• Issue archive template
• Full template
• Embed template
• Issue year template
• Full template
• Issue article template
• Line template
• Full template
• Embed template
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Adding Community Forums
• The magazine's forum
• Adding the Forum
• Creating a sticky post
• Forum access control list
• Creating the Private forums section
• Creating the magazine's blog
• Adding the blog
• Set up the feeds
• Creating the blog feed
• Creating the forum feed
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Internationalization and Localization
• A multilingual site
• Internationalization
• Localization
• Locale identifiers
• Creating a new locale file
• Multi-language site management
• Class attribute translations
• Class default language
• Content translation
• URL translation
• Multilingual extensions
• The extension folder structure
• The extension siteaccess
• The template strings
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Creating Roles and Privileges
• Policies, roles, and groups
• Policies
• Roles
• Applying a role
• User groups
• eZ Publish user management
• User accounts
• Creating a new user
• Extending eZ Publish user classes
• Managing a user
• Disabling a user
• Deleting a user
• The eZ Webin predefined groups
• Some steps into the workflows
• The default workflow events
• Approve
• Wait until date
• Multiplexer
• Simple Shipping
• Payment Gateway
• Creating a notification workflow
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Cache Configuration
• Caching system
• Template cache
• eZ Webin cache block
• Compiling a template
• Template optimization
• View cache
• Enabling/Disabling the cache by context
• Clearing the view cache
• Smart cache
• Default caching settings
• Advanced eZ Publish caching system
• Advanced settings
• Override cache
• Pre-generation cache
• Translation cache
• Role cache
• Static cache
• Opcode cache
• Proxy and HTTP Accelerator
• Customize cache settings to speed up the performance
• What not to do in a template
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Deployment
• Environments
• Development environment
• Staging environment
• Production environment
• Preparing the production server
• Deploying an eZ Publish site
• eZ Deploy
• Creating the automatic tests
• Installing the Selenium IDE
• Recording a session
• Customizing tests
• Configuring the staging and production siteaccesses
• Deploying the database
• Deploying the code
• Configuring the extension
• Excluding files from deploy
• Starting the synchronization
• Checking the validity
• Quality assurance
• Deploying to the production server
• Summary

• Appendix A: APC Installation and Optimization
• APC tuning for eZ Publish
• Opcode Cache
• How does it work?
• Installing APC
• Installing from sources
• PECL installation
• APC configuration
• APC GUI
• Performance

• Appendix B: Advance Debugging
• Code debugger
• Debug template operators
• Templating debug

• Appendix C: eZ Publish's Best Extensions
• eZ Xajax
• Star Rating
• eZ Publish OE
• eZ JSCore
• Google Sitemaps
• eZ Deploy
• Data Import

• Index