Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook: 70 Simple But Incredibly Effective Recipes for Creating Your Own Feature Rich, Modern Plone Add-on Products by Diving Into Its Development Framework

Description

The examples in this book follow a sample project creating a digital newspaper website to meet the requirements of a fictional customer who wants to place commercial advertisements all over the site. The whole book is a comprehensive collection of recipes that elaborate a series of well known use cases. You will find an organized step-by-step procedure to accomplish each task followed by detailed explanations to better understand how and why each topic was undertaken, and many links to online references and other related sections in the book that can supplement the subject in question. You can read the whole book or just pick the recipes that are relevant for you; where necessary, cross references will help you understand the recipes even if you do not read them in sequential order. This book is for programmers who have some knowledge of Python, Plone, and Zope. If you want to develop feature-rich add-on products in Plone, this book is for you. It is aimed at the development of backend features, so you need not have other web-related skills such as HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Cover Copyright Credits About the Authors About the Reviewers Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started Introduction Installing Python on Linux Installing Plone on Linux Installing Plone on Windows Checking out code from a version control system Creating a Plone site Chapter 2 : Using Development Tools Introduction Accessing an IPython powered shell Taking advantage of an enhanced interac tive Python debugger with ipdb Discovering Zope/Plone APIs and docstrings with DocFinderTab Opening an online Python shell on Plone using Clouseau Debugging Zope exceptions with PDBDebug Mode Applying code changes on-the-fly using plone.reload Chapter 3 : Creating Content Types with ArchGenXML Introduction Installing ArchGenXML Configuring ArgoUML Creating a model Generating code Customizing generated code Installing the product Automatically installing products in your Zope instance Chapter 4 : Prevent Bugs through Testing Introduction Working with paster-generated test suites Creating a test suite with ArchGenXML Creating doctests with iPython Zope functional testing Using Selenium functional tests Chapter 5 : Creating a Custom Content Type with Paster Introduction Creating an Archetypes product with paster Adding a content type into a product Changing the base class in paster content types Adding fields to a content type Adding a custom validator to a content type Modifying the view of a content type with jQuery Chapter 6: Creating Lightweight Content Types Introduction Creating a product package structure Creating a folderish content type Creating the user interface for Zope 3 content types Creating content types with Dexterity Chapter 7: Improving Product Performance Introduction Installing CacheFu with a policy product Improving performance by tweaking expensive code Testing server load and benchmarking our code Chapter 8 : Internationalization Introduction Adding i18ndude support to ArchGenXML Installing i18ndude standalone Using i18ndude Using Placeless Translation Services for i18n support Using zope.i18n approach Overriding others' translations Using i18n with ArchGenXML Using i18n with paster-created products Adding i18n support to any product Translating content Setting language options Chapter 9 : Adding Security to your Products Introduction Creating a new permission Adding a new role Adding user groups Testing security customizations Protecting operations with permissions Managing security with workflows Adding configuration options in Plone control panel Chapter 10 : Improving User Interface with KSS Introduction Preparing a form to take full advantage of KSS Changing end user pages with client-side KSS Submitting data via AJAX Chapter 11 : Creating Portlets Introduction Creating a portlet package Customizing a new portlet according to our requirements Testing portlets Assigning portlets automatically Chapter 12 : Extending Third-Party Products Introduction Using skin layers Overriding Zope 3 components Customizing Zope 3 browser templates and files Subscribing to others' events Using the ZCA to extend a third-party product: Collage Chapter 13 : Interacting with other Systems: XML-RPC Introduction Creating a configuration form Registering a local utility Registering a global utility Chapter 14 : Getting our Products ready for Production Introduction Installing and configuring an egg repository Submitting products to an egg repository Writing a production buildout Appendix: Creating a Policy Product Creating a policy product Index