Professional Plone Development:
Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System
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Book Contents Index > Chapter 4

Introduction
1: Plone in Context
2: The Case Study
3: The Development Environment
4: Customization Basics
5: Developing a Site Strategy
6: Security and Workflow
7: Using Add-on Products
8: Creating a Custom Theme
9: Nine Core Concepts of Zope Programming

10: Custom Content Types
11: Standalone Views and Forms
12: Relational Databases
13:
Users and Their Permissions

14: Rich User Interfaces with KSS
15: Next Steps
16: Server Management
17:
Setting Up a Production Server

18: Authenticating with LDAP
19: Looking to the Future
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Chapter 4: Customization Basics

To a certain extent, all we ever do when we use Plone-the-platform is to customize Plone-the-product. Sometimes, that means building a system that barely resembles "out-of-the-box" Plone; and at times, it's just about adding a few bells and removing a few unnecessary whistles.

In this chapter, we will learn about the main types of customization that Plone supports. In the next chapter, we will put these concepts into practice by creating a policy product to manage specific customizations relevant to Optilux Cinema case study.

 

Chapter 4: Customization Basics

  • Persistent Settings and the ZODB
  • Configuration Using GenericSetup
    • GenericSetup and the Add/Remove Products Control Panel
  • Acquisition and Skin Layers
  • Overriding Zope 3 Components
  • Customization Best Practices
    • Using Source Control
    • Writing Tests
    • Migration of Persistent State
  • Summary
   

 

Paperback 420 pages
Released: September 2007
ISBN 1847191983
ISBN 13: 978-1-847191-98-4

     

 




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