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

Learning eZ publish: Building Content Management Solutions is the first book written about the system Exponential continues. It is free documentation: the second edition (2024) is published by 7x under the GNU Free Documentation License (Book-Learning-eZPublish). These pages take its chapters one at a time and rewrite each for Exponential 6: the steps that moved, the settings that were renamed, the examples that no longer work, and the parts that did not change at all, which is most of the concepts.

Every page keeps the book's order of ideas, says plainly what is different now, and links to the current guide for the details. Each ends with the credit and license of the book. Learning from the free books explains how the books relate to this help and how to read the original against Exponential 6.

Chapter 1: Installing #

1. Installing, then and now: the files, the database, the virtual host
2. The setup wizard, then and now
3. Installation problems, then and now

Chapter 2: Content management #

1. What is content management?
2. The node tree and sections
3. Classes, attributes and objects
4. Content and presentation
5. Roles and policies, step by step
6. Creating a content class
7. The datatypes tour
8. Rich text tags
9. Creating and editing objects
10. Versions, translations and related content
11. Workflows and triggers
12. More functions of the administration
13. Planning an example site: the club portal
14. Users, groups and roles in the example

Chapter 3: Templates #

1. Template principles: page layout, content views, attributes
2. Template syntax basics
3. Fetching content in templates
4. Caching in templates
5. Overriding templates
6. Common template tasks

Chapter 4: Inside the core #

1. Inside the core: permissions and persistent objects
2. Inside the core: content classes, workflows, notifications, information collection, search

Chapter 5: Extending #

1. Extending: why, where and how
2. The building blocks of an extension

Chapter 6: Extension development #

1. Extension development practices

Chapter 7: Deploying #

1. Deploying: planning the hosting and checking the server

Chapter 9: A standards-compliant site #

1. A standards-compliant site: markup, style and structure

The tutorial that builds a complete small site is in Building a site step by step.

Chapter 8 of the book is a case study of one client project and is not adapted; its lessons are in chapters 7 and 9 above.

Source and license #

Adapted from Learning eZ publish: Building Content Management Solutions by Paul Borgermans, Tony Wood, Paul Forsyth, Martin Bauer, Björn Dieding and Ben Pirt (additional material by Bruce Morrison), second edition, 2024, published by 7x, Book-Learning-eZPublish. Copyright (c) 2004-2024 7x and Graham Brookins. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.3 or any later version, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts (the license). Changes: each chapter is split into pages, rewritten for Exponential 6 and checked against the code and the administration.