Leaders of the eZ publish community guide you through this complex and powerful PHP based content management system.

This book takes you through the process of designing and building content rich web sites and applications using eZ publish. Famed for its power and flexibility, eZ publish can be daunting on first approach. Moreover, it has advanced features that reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease experienced PHP developers into thinking and developing the eZ publish way.

With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with eZ publish, and technical approval from eZ systems (creators of eZ publish) this book is a distillation of the authors’ expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.

eZ publish is a PHP-based, Open Source Content Management System and development framework. With over 950,000 downloads of the system to date, and now at version 3, eZ publish has evolved from a standard CMS to a framework for developing your own robust, PHP applications.

This book covers installing eZ publish, an outline of the basic concepts of eZ publish and the structure of an eZ publish site, content management with eZ publish, controlling your page output with eZ publish templates, the eZ publish core libraries, creating eZ publish extensions, creating new modules and datatypes, working with RSS import and export, deploying an eZ publish site, case studies of real eZ publish sites, optimizing your eZ publish installation.

Good book: very technical
With this book, our intrepid micro-publisher has sought to lay out an understanding of the complex content management system eZ Publish (www.eZ.no). eZ Publish is a very powerful php based CMS solution, and really does meet the requirements of an Enterprise CMS solution.

However, it has not been a very well documented project despite great efforts by the developers, especially for the more complex functionality.

This book addresses many of the things that are left wanted by the documentation, such as the modification of core classes. However, it oddly combines them with basic information like how to set up the system -- information which was almost out of date before the book was released.

Sadly, the book fails to go deep enough to satiate the demand of our more technical users while also failing to provide enough introductory material for beginners. This lack of clear audience focus plagues the book and lessens it’s utility for real world developer or beginners.

This book is absolutely worth the money, if you’ve got a little php under your belt and you’re looking to really buckle down and start developing eZ Publish sites. But if you’re a beginner, or you don’t have a solid understanding of php, you’ll probably find this book to be over your head past the first chapter.

This publisher is coming out with a revised version which I am sure will address many of these issues, as they are one of the best computer book publishers to hit the scene since WROX. The fourthcoming Plone book by the same publisher looks like a good title, and the OpenCMS book by Packt Publishers is very good.