Learning Exponential: the chapters of the Learning book, brought up to date

Contents

1. Learning Exponential: the chapters of the Learning book, brought up to date
   Help pages adapted from the free book Learning eZ publish, chapter by chapter, with every step, setting and label checked against Exponential 6.
2. Installing, then and now: the files, the database, the virtual host
   What the Learning book's first chapter had you do by hand (unpack, create a database, write a virtual host, set up images and cron, read the ini files), and what each step is in Exponential 6.
3. The setup wizard, then and now
   The twelve pages of the Learning book's setup wizard, matched to the pages of the Exponential 6 wizard, with what changed (database choices, site packages, siteaccess methods) and the commands that skip the wizard.
4. Installation problems, then and now
   The two problems the Learning book's first chapter troubleshoots (PHP memory limit, PHP as CGI) and how they look in Exponential 6, with where to look first.
5. What is content management?
   What a content management system does (collect, manage, publish), what that means in Exponential, and the design step that comes before any click: planning the structure.
6. The node tree and sections
   Content objects versus the nodes that place them in the tree, how a branch inherits its section, and what sections are used for (permissions and presentation).
7. Classes, attributes and objects
   How a content class defines a kind of content through its attributes, how objects are created from it, and how versions, translations and the version limit work.
8. Content and presentation
   Why content, logic and presentation are kept apart, and the two places a page is made: the page layout and the content view.