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One of the most common issues of newcomers to eZ Publish is the setup of a system suitable for running it. Without a correctly configured system in place they usually do not get beyond the installation process and abandon their evaluation before having experienced the product.  The eZ Publish puppet module is an attempt to codify the requirements  for running eZ Publish and provide a means for automatically creating a system suitable for running it - no more following a checklist of "setting up eZ Publish on XYZ". The eZ Publish 5 Virtual Machine can be found on github at  https://github.com/brucem/vagrant-puppet-ezpublish .   It combines Vagrant, VirtualBox & Puppet to generate a VM with the current eZ Publish community version (2013.4) installed and ready to be configured. The README.md  provides details of the requirements and how to use it. Vagrant is a system that  orchestrates the automatic creation and configuration of s...

It's been a while since there's been a eZ Publish release from Packt Publishing but the long awaited eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step has finally hit the shelves.  Written by Francesco Fullone and Francesco Trucchia it spans 292 pages and details building a site using eZ Publish 4 from server preparation, eZ Publish installation, implementation and deployment. A imaginary magazine site is used to illustrate examples throughout the book.  A number of topics are covered that will help those new to eZ Publish get up and running. The book is based on eZ publish 4.0.1 and while the current version of eZ publish is 4.2.0 the content is still relevant and there are several notes that refer to features and changes in newer versions. Packt has provided Chapter 6 - Creating a Design as a free sample download (PDF) . A chapter overview is available on the book site as well as a full table of contents . This is a review of the PDF version of the book provided...

Thanks to sponsorship by DB Informatics the PHPList subscription synchronise extension has been upgraded to work with PHP5 and eZ Publish 4.x This extension allows for the addition of a Subscribe to list attribute to be added to the User content class. Users are able to subscribe or unsubscribe from PHPList mailing list by editing their profile.

Earlier this year I was investigating OpenID and decided to attempt to integrate it into eZ Publish . I got most of the way before I realised that the amount of existing code I had to replicate meant that the maintenance of the extension would be a nightmare. After discussions at the eZ Developer Day I decided to upload the source to projects.ez.no and invite anyone interested check it out. If you want to contribute feel free to add yourself to the group. The extension uses the PHP OpenID Library by JanRain . The version of the library used in the extension is 2.1.1. In future I plan at evaluating the use of the eZ Components OpenID Authentication module . Features The extension provides the following features: Login using OpenID Register Using OpenID OpenID URL management Both the OpenID Login and User Registration work in parallel to the existing systems, allowing users to login & register in a regular manor. The templates have been created for the admin & ezwebmin i...

eZ Publish is a finalist in Packt Publishings' 2008 Open Source CMS Awards . eZ Publish gained a successful nomination in the Best PHP Open Source CMS category . Voting began on September 1st and closes mid October. Visit the Packt site and cast your vote now !

My membership of the e Z Approve 2 project has been given the green light so as a follow up to my previous post Using Git with eZ Publish projects I can present the output of the commits back to the subversion repository. $ git-svn dcommit Authentication realm: eZ projects Password for 'zabbie': A design/standard/templates/node/view/plain.tpl Committed r2501 M eventtypes/event/ezapprove2/ezapprove2type.php Committed r2502 M classes/ezxapprovestatususerlink.php Committed r2503 M collaboration/ezapprove2/ezapprove2collaborationhandler.php Committed r2504 M collaboration/ezapprove2/ezapprove2collaborationhandler.php Committed r2505 A design/standard/templates/node/view/plain.tpl r2501 = e5a186160c1fab07a2894d180f932e3a6931b782 (git-svn) M eventtypes/event/ezapprove2/ezapprove2type.php r2502 = 43c5b3ba16bf4015ee8f9c2f2a1a9e4d4333972d (git-svn) M classes/ezxapprovestatususerlin...