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New article on hybrid mobile website development available on share.ez.no

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:11:14 PDT

We have just published an article titled "Building mobile browser and hybrid applications with eZ Publish". This is part one of a two-part article series about mobile development with the eZ Publish CMS. This first article focuses on creating a mobile website and extending it to be a hybrid mobile application.

Design contest: be the one to redesign the eZ Publish Community portal

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:20:57 PDT

With the recent launch of eZ Publish's new Community Portal, it is time to call for all designers to take out their pencils and paper. It is time for a design contest!

"ezjscore: eZ Publish JavaScript and Ajax framework" article is out!

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:20:41 PST

The release of eZ Publish 4.2.0 included the stable release of the ezjscore extension. ezjscore enhances the eZ Publish ECMS by providing a framework for Ajax-based applications and facilitating development with powerful JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and YUI. My great colleague André Rømcke and I sat down together to write an article covering the details of ezjscore, with documentation and code examples.

eZ Flow: the real life examples

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:42:58 PST

I have noticed in the past few months an explosion of new media sites built using eZ Flow. What is eZ Flow you may ask? In short, it is an extension created for the eZ Publish Enterprise Open Source Content Management System. The eZ Flow extension enables editors to build complex page layouts and pre-plan the publication schedule to ensure a constant flow of rich content. eZ Flow brings modern portal management possibilities to eZ Publish.

eZ Publish 4.1 and 4.2 hidden gems

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:45:46 PDT

Some very useful developer functionality has been added to eZ Publish in the past two major releases (4.1 and 4.2). I have compiled a list of improvements, mainly related to fetch functions and INI settings, that eZ Publish developers could benefit from on a day-to-day basis.

Overriding translations in eZ Publish 4.1 and higher

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:13:27 PDT

One of new features but a bit forgotten in eZ Publish 4.1 is the improved way to override translations and locale files. Previously, you had to override entire translation files, whereas with eZ Publish 4.1, you can selectively override specific strings. Let's take a look at a practical example, where we will override a default eng-GB translation (which is the default language in eZ Publish) by creating an extension to contain a translation file that has only a few strings that we want to override.

eZ Publish performance with PHP 5.3.0

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:29:18 PDT

The PHP Development team has recently released PHP 5.3.0. Early reports indicate there is a performance boost simply from upgrading from a previous version.

From community feedback it appears that eZ Publish using Windows is about 30% quicker with PHP 5.3.0. I decided to validate these reports and confirm the performance of eZ Publish using PHP 5.3.0 with a linux environment.

A short summary of the tests performed can be found below.

eZ Publish Backwards Compatibility and where to find information

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:22:57 PDT

Inside eZ Publish 4.1.0 there is a new documentation directory listing all backwards compatibility (BC) changes for this release. This directory is located under 'doc/bc' folder within the eZ Publish root. Here you can find important information about BC changes which help with the upgrade process from previous eZ Publish versions, as well with your extensions.

Make your extension compatible with eZ Publish 4.1

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:19:12 PDT

Introduced in eZ Publish 4.1 is a performance enhancement (http://issues.ez.no/14273) which loads modules more intelligently.

All available modules must now be registered through module.ini and [ModuleSettings].ModuleList array.

If your extension uses custom modules and you receive an an error similar to this:

Download the eZ Multiupload extension alpha release

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:57:02 PST

The alpha version of the eZ Multiupload extension has been released and is ready to be downloaded and tested. The eZ Multiupload extension enables users to upload multiple files - such as images, documents, and binary files - at once, via the front-end of an eZ Publish website.