Professional Plone 4 Development

    Format : PDF    
    Paperback: 516 pages
    Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2011)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1849514429
    ISBN-13: 978-1849514422
   
Plone is a web content management system that features among the top 2% of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customising and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.If you want to create your own web applications and advanced websites using Plone 4, Professional Plone 4 Development is the book you need.The first edition of this book remains one of the most widely read and recommended Plone books. This second edition is completely revised and up-to-date for Plone 4.1, covering new topics such as Dexterity, Diazo, jQuery and z3c.form, as well as improved ways of working with existing technologies such as Buildout, SQLAlchemy and the Pluggable Authentication Service. It retains the writing style and comprehensive approach that made the first edition so popular.Built around a realistic case study, Professional Plone 4 Development will take you from an understanding of PloneΓΓé¼Γäós central concepts, through basic customization, theming, and custom development, to deployment and optimization.

The book is divided into four sections:
    First, you will be introduced to Plone and the case study, and learn how to set up a development environment.
    The second section covers basic customization, including theming a Plone site using Diazo.
    The third section focuses on custom development ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ building new content types and user interfaces, customizing security and integrating with external databases.
    The final chapters cover deployment and performance optimization.

What you will learn from this book :
    Setting up a productive development environment
    Basics of Plone customisation and extension
    Theming a Plone site using Diazo and plone.app.theming
    Core concepts that underpin the workings of Zope and Plone
    Creating custom content types using Dexterity
    Building views and forms, including the use of z3c.form
    Integrating with relational databases using SQLAlchemy
    Customising the management of users and groups with PAS
    Creating rich user interfaces with jQuery and jQuery Tools
    Deploying and optimizing a production-ready Plone server
    Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory