Extensions
Extensions are plugins to eZ publish, providing additional custom functionality. Various extensions are available for eZ publish. All of them require the same basic steps for an installation. This chapter will show how to perform the following:
- Extract the compressed archive containing the extension
- Activate the extension
Some extensions might require further action to make them fully functional, e.g. creating new database tables, adding certain content classes to eZ publish, etc. Such additional measures are explained in the documentation for each extension.
As outlined before, this section deals with the basic steps only. For demonstration purposes, the installation will be examplified by an imaginery extension called "ezfoo".
In this section
- Extracting the files Each extension is distributed as a compressed archive. The name of the archive file includes the name of the extension and its release version. Furthermore, the compression type is indicated by the file ending, either "tgz", "tar.gz", "bz2", or "zip". For example:
- Activating the extension Exponential Documentation
Contributors
- Sandro Groganz
- Balazs Halasy Updated
- Mindshare Tech Commenter
- Svitlana Shatokhina Commenter
Comments (2 historical)
Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.
Updated Extension documentation
Mindshare Tech ·
Hey Guys,
Is there any current documentation on how to write and create you're own extension? When would one want to create an extension as opposed to just a custom template operator?
Thanks,
Nate
Re: Updated Extension documentation
Svitlana Shatokhina ·
Hi,
There is no updated documentation at the moment. However, you can find information about creating different types of extensions under the "Extensions" chapter in the old documentation. Please go to http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/development/extensions and use the "Contents" links on the right hand side to access the desired subsection.
Best regards,
Sveta