Practical Plone 3: A Beginner's Guide to Building Powerful Websites

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Plone is a highly extensible content management system built on Zope application server, which is written in Python. But, you need to have good programming skills to design and develop Plone web applications. Does that mean you can't have a Plone website if you don't have good programming skills? Of course not! You can develop your Plone websites through a graphical interface where you don't need to fiddle with code.This book will give you clear understanding of how to use Plone 3 to meet your content management needs. Starting from the basics, this book will walk you through the easy-to-use features of Plone and help you create a feature-rich website through its point-and-click feature.A variety of authors have contributed chapters to this book in the hope that you, the reader, will get a good understanding of Plone and be able to use it effectively. This beginners' guide will introduce the great CMS and its features and then take you further in web development. The book will introduce you to Plone's advanced UI features and show you how to create such a UI platform for your website. You will learn how to manage the contents like web pages, news items, and so on. Working with custom portlets will help you enhance the web components for your site. Each chapter will show you how to add features to your site and develop its functionality. Each chapter can be read independently; you need not go through the previous one to continue further. You can pick and choose the topics depending on your interest and requirement. Spis treści:
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Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
What this book covers
Part 1 Background
Part 2 I want to...
Part 3 Now that Ive got the basics, I'd like to learn how to...
Part 4 My boss wants me to...
What you need for this book
Who is this book For
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code for the book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
I. Background
1. Introducing Plone
What is a content management system?
What is Plone?
Plone: the product
Plone: the framework
Plone: the community
Online
In the real world
What does it mean that Plone is open source?
Planning your web site
Audience
Outcomes
Content and site features
Business rules
Graphic design, branding, look, and feel
Integration with external systems
Hosting/deployment
Who will maintain and edit the site?
Summary
2. Installing Plone
Background
Downloading Plone installers
Installing on Windows
Running the Windows installer
Running Plone
Setting ports
Starting and stopping the Plone service
Customizing startup
The installation layout
Uninstalling
Installing on Mac OS X
Running the installer
Custom install options
Finishing up
Starting and stopping Plone
Uninstalling Plone
Installing on Linux
Installation options
Preparing your system
Extra packages
Downloading and unpacking the Unified Installer
Running the Unified Installer
Starting and stopping Plone
The installation layout
Installation options
Installation from source
The software stack: Python, Zope, and Plone
Traditional source install
A better build with buildout
Testing your installation
Summary
3. A Brief Tour of Plone
Logging into a Plone based site
Portlets
Navigating the home page
Logo
Site Map
Accessibility
Contact
Search
User link
Personal dashboard
Profile
Change password
Dashboard edits
Tabs on the Home page
Home tab
Users tab
News
Events
Breadcrumbs
My folder
Colophon
Summary
II. I want to...
4. Create Web Pages
Viewing site contents
Adding a new page
Title
Description
Body Text
Using the formatting tools
Bold and Italics
Left, center, and right align
Numbered and bulleted lists
Definition list
Indent text
Using the style menu
Examples of each style
Saving your work
Editing a page
Edit all parts of a page
Edit a single part of a page
Editing the HTML of a page
Using full screen mode
Creating hyperlinks
Internal Links
External Links
Linking to a specific part of a page: anchors
Defining the anchors
Linking to an anchor from a different page
Linking to an anchor on the same page
Working with images
Uploading an image
Inserting an image on a Page
Preparing images for the web
Controlling the layout of a page: tables
Publishing your work
Publishing a page
Publishing multiple pages
Publishing a folder
Summary
5. Add News Items, Events, Links, and Files
News items
Creating a news item
The news folder
Events
The events folder
Creating events
Using the vCal and iCal links
Links
Files
Adding a file
Summary
6. Structure Your Content
Real world information architecture tips
Structuring your content
Adding Collections to your site
Additional Collections
Restricting types of content
Moving content
Changing the order of pages
Summary
7. Safely Manage Different Versions Of Content
Introducing versioning
Creating a new version
Viewing the version history
Previewing previous versions
Comparing versions
Reverting to a previous version
Summary
8. Delegate Content Management to Other People
Creating users and groups
Creating a user
Allowing users to register themselves
Creating users with initial passwords
Roles and permissions
Contributor
Editor
Reader
Reviewer
Manager
Using groups to control security
Creating groups
Adding users to groups
Assigning roles to specific places in your site
Summary
9. Manage Approvals and Other Workflow for my Content
Background
Roles
States
Transitions
Changing your site's workflow
Understanding Plone's supplied workflows
Making our own collaboration workflow
Summary
10. Show Additional Information to Users and Visitors
What's a portlet, anyway?
Plone's built-in portlets
Add-on portlets
Adding portlets
Adding portlets to specific sections of your site
Adding portlets to specific content types
Adding portlets to specific groups of users
Hiding portlets for specific content objects
Unblocking portlets that have been blocked
Creating new types of portlets
Installing collective.portlet.tal
Adding a simple TAL portlet
Variable declaration
Conditionals
Choosing a random item
Filling in the value of an HTML tag
Attributes on an HTML tag
More information
Summary
11. Automate Tasks with Content Rules
Understanding content rules
Getting into action
Receiving an email when someone adds a page
Moving published news items to a top-level news folder
Triggering events
Conditions
Actions
Notify site users of a successfully-completed action
Summary
12. Control My Site's Configuration
The Plone control panel
Walk-through of each preference panel
Add/Remove Products
Calendar
Collection
Content Rules
Errors
HTML filtering
Language
Mail
Maintenance
Markup
Navigation
Search
Security
Site settings
Themes
Types
Users and Groups
Kupu visual editor
Styles
Zope Management Interface
Syndicating content with RSS
Navigation options
Global sections
Navigation portlet
Summary
III. Now that I've got the basics, I'd like to learn how to...
13. Set up a Repeatable Environment using Buildout
Terms
Why zc.buildout?
Default settings
Buildout quick start
Cooking with buildout
Buildout configuration
Advanced configuration
Debug configuration
Version pinning
Summary
14. Find and Install Add-Ons that Expand Plone Functionality
Background
Where to find products
Using the Plone product pages
Playing it safe with add-on products
Product choice strategy
Evaluating a product

Testing a product
Looking to the future
Installing and testing products
Zope installation
Downloading and unpacking a product
Traditional product installation
Finding the Instance products directory
Checking ownership and permissions
Restarting Zope
Eggs
Plone installation
Installation problems
Widely-used Plone products
Integration
Content management
Community
Feedback
Page composition
Media
E-commerce
Mashups
Internationalization
Development and examples
Examples
API exploration
Code generators
Summary
15. Build Forms
Installing PloneFormGen
Creating a form
Adding a Form Folder
Configure the basic properties of your form
Adding and editing form fields
Adding selection fields and multi-select fields
Action Adapters
Mailer Adapter
Save Data Adapter
Custom Script Adapter
Overrides
Configuration
References
Summary
16. Create New Content Types
Background
When do I actually need a custom content type?
But I'm not a programmer!
The toolsor drawing code for fun and profit
Archetypes and object-oriented programming
The concept of schema
Object-oriented programming concepts
UML and a quick introduction of the symbols you'll use
A quick look at the programs that make it possible
The class, the package, composition, aggregation, and generalization
Class
Package
Composition and aggregation
Generalization
Stereotypes and tagged values
Our bridge to happiness: ArchGenXML
Building a custom newsroom
A rough outline of the types we'll use
Press release
Press kit folder
Drawing your first new product
Creating a package for your types
Creating your first classes
Generate your product!
Adding your fields
Adding a custom folder type
Cleaning things up a bit
Tagged values for greater precision
Moving around in the code and renaming fields them
Summary
17. Customize Plone
Background
Make changes to tabs, buttons, and menu options
Document actions category
Site actions category
Folder buttons category
Object category
Object buttons category
Portal tabs category
User category
Customization using templates
Skin layer customizationThe old fashioned way
Registering and installing a new filesystem-based skin layer
Getting started
Zope 3 basics
Zope 3 browser layers
Using plone.theme to enable a custom browser layer interface
Using browser layer technology to allow additive layers
About Zope 3 browser resources
Images and stylesheets
Browser views and pages
Using portal_view_customizations
Finding views
Viewlets
Portlets
Writing a filesystem product
About GenericSetup
Base profile
Extension profiles
An example extension profile
Taking snapshots
Export profile
Import profile
Summary
18. Change the Look and Feel
Developing on the filesystem
Assumptions
Setting up a development environment
Windows users
Generating your theme product
Installing a theme product on a Plone site
Updating your buildout to recognize your theme product
Creating a Plone site
Putting your site into debug mode
Installing your product
Getting started with an example theme product
Generating the theme product
Altering important boilerplate code
Fixing the installer bug
Naming the theme meaningfully
Adjusting the names of skin layer folders
Working with images
Overriding the default Plone icons
Using Firebug to inspect CSS code
Examining the images in our theme product
Modifying your folder structure to add an additional skin layer
Adding a favicon
Modifying other skin layer images
Adding new images to our theme product
Images as Zope 3 browser resources
Working with stylesheets
Stylesheets as Zope 3 resources
Working with base properties
Registering a new stylesheet for your theme product
Stylesheets located in our theme product
Basic theming of a Plone site
Altering the logo
Altering the image using base properties
Altering the Logo viewlet
Identifying if the Logo is template-based or class-based
Customize the template that renders the Logo or create a new one
Overriding or referencing the class that controls the Logo viewlet
Registering the viewlet for the Logo
Reworking the header area viewlets
Moving the breadcrumbs to a new viewlet
Register the breadcrumbs viewlet for the correct viewlet manager
Ordering the viewlet in the correct location in our profiles
Moving the Logo viewlet to a new viewlet manager
Moving the site actions viewlet to a new viewlet manager
Reordering the personal bar viewlet
Styling the header
Styling the central region of the page
Altering the footer area viewlets
Altering the header area title
Backward-Compatibility of 3.x themes
Creating the template
Working with section colors
Summary
IV. My boss wants me to...
19. Take My Site Live
Reverse proxying
What is a reverse proxy and why do you need one?
But I have to use IIS!
Reverse proxying with Apache
Apache virtual hosting
Rewrite rules for fun and profit
Introducing a friendly monster
Selective rewriting
SSL hosting
Putting Plone inside a larger site
Securing a production server
Securing the ports
Locking down the service
Running Zope as a special user
Linux, OS X, BSD
Windows servers
Turning off debug modes
Checking Zope debug mode
Resource registry debug modes
Starting Zope automatically
Linux
Windows
OS X
Backing up Plone and packing down the database
What to back up
Backing up the Zope database
Repozo
Restoring backups
Packing the ZODB
Packing interactively
Automated packing
Log rotation
Staging from development to a live server
Synchronizing add-on products and code
Moving object data
Summary
20. Make it Go Faster
Getting and installing CacheFu
Installing locally with buildout
Installing locally as an old-style Zope 2 product
Enabling CacheFu
Picking a proxy
Squid or Varnish?
Installing a caching proxy with buildout
Squid buildout recipe
Varnish buildout recipe
Installing a caching proxy without buildout
Traditional Squid build
Traditional Varnish build
Generating proxy configuration from CacheFu templates
CacheFu squid template
CacheFu varnish template
Setting up proxy purging
Setting up compression and Vary headers
Caches and cache control
Controlling your caches
Freshness headers
Validation headers
Zope memory cache control
Other cache control mechanisms
Exploring the CacheFu control panel
Making it go even faster
Starting with the default
Aggressively-cached items
Moderately-cached items
Weakly-cached items
Speed tip 1: Speed up weakly-cached items
Speed tip 2: Speed up non-cached items
Speed tip 3: Watch out for authenticated versus anonymous users
Speed tip 4: Set a short lifetime on purgeable content
Summary
21. Connect to Your LDAP/Active Directory Repository
LDAP and Active Directory
Installing LDAP/Active Directory support
Installing prerequisites
Installing on Linux
Installing on OS X
Installing on Windows
Installing PloneLDAP
Installing plone.app.ldap
Activate LDAP support
Configuring LDAP connections
Configure Global Settings
Configure LDAP Schema
Configure LDAP Servers
Testing your LDAP connection
Advanced LDAP configuration
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