Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Approving guestbook entries with a workflow Updated Markdown page
Stopping spam and offensive text in the guestbook: an Approve workflow limited to the Guestbook section, connected to the publish trigger, the approver's inbox, and the cronjob that carries the approval out.
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Sections and the welcome page Updated Markdown page
Creating the first folders and sections of the club site, writing the welcome article, making it the front page with IndexPage, and giving it a template of its own with an override rule.
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Start the project: the case, a siteaccess and a design Updated Markdown page
The chess club case of the Building a Site tutorial, and the setup it begins with (a siteaccess, a design, a settings extension and a design extension), done the Exponential 6 way instead of renaming the Plain site's…
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The guestbook: visitors write content Updated Markdown page
A guestbook as a class and a folder: the entry class, the display template, the button and form that let visitors add an entry, the policy that allows it, and the spam question to settle first.
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The links page: categories, link objects and a tree menu Updated Markdown page
A links section made of category folders and Link objects, shown as an expandable tree, and the same content in two places with a second location.
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The main layout: pagelayout.tpl and a style sheet Updated Markdown page
Building the page frame of the club site step by step: a bare pagelayout, loading a style sheet through the design settings, then the header, the menu, the content area and the footer.
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The members page: a custom content class, a list and an info page Updated Markdown page
Creating the Member class, adding members, a list view for the Members folder and a full view for one member, plus the privacy question the 2003 tutorial did not ask.
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The news pages: overview, full article and archive Updated Markdown page
Building the first dynamic pages: a News folder with articles, the overview of the latest seven, the full view of one article, and an archive list with paging, using fetch, overrides and the navigator.
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Your first static site in 15 minutes: the club site on GitHub Pages Updated Markdown page
The last chapter - the finished club site published as a free static copy on GitHub Pages, with the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish, and what changes for the guestbook and the members page.
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Learning Exponential: the chapters of the Learning book, brought up to date Updated Markdown page
Help pages adapted from the free book Learning eZ publish, chapter by chapter, with every step, setting and label checked against Exponential 6. Start here for the reading order.
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A standards-compliant site: markup, style and structure Updated Markdown page
The book's case for web standards and its planning method for a department site (page types become data classes), updated from XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2 to HTML5, accessible markup and the content model of Exponential 6.
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Caching in templates: overall caches and cache blocks Updated Markdown page
The settings that switch template compiling and the view cache on or off while you develop, how {cache-block} keys and expiry work, and the PHP operator list that adds simple operators.
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Classes, attributes and objects Updated Markdown page
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.
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Common template tasks Updated Markdown page
Recipes from the book (top menu, breadcrumb, tree menu, edit links, dates, shortening text, user panel, keywords) rewritten with foreach, current operators and no inline style.
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Content and presentation Updated Markdown page
Why content, logic and presentation are kept apart, and the two places a page is made: the page layout and the content view.
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Creating a content class Updated Markdown page
The steps and the choices in creating a class: groups, name, identifier, the object name pattern, attributes, and what happens to existing objects when you change it.
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Creating and editing objects Updated Markdown page
Creating an object from a class, the locations bar (main location, move, add, remove), what extra locations do and do not do, and information collectors.
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Deploying: planning the hosting and checking the server Updated Markdown page
The hosting questions the book asks before a go-live (visitors, system size, security, reporting, budget, time, shared or dedicated), a load test with siege, the documentation to keep, and where today's deployment…
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Extending: why, where and how Updated Markdown page
Why write an extension, how to name and activate one, and where its folders go, with the book's table of subfolders matched to the layout of an Exponential 6 extension.
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The building blocks of an extension: modules, datatypes, operators, workflow events, notifications Updated Markdown page
The rest of the book's extending chapter (module definitions, view parameters, actions, navigation, module coding, datatypes, operators, workflow events, notifications, SOAP and RSS) as a map to the developer pages that…