Excercising the template override system in eZ Publish

The problem.
 
Much of the ez flow design and layouts is simple to comprehend by comparing the visual layout of pages, zones, and blocks accessed from the user interface, and referencing these views back to the layouts in the admin gui.
 
The “Global zone” in a default 4.0.1 install is different.  Accessed from the “site map” in [...]

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RSS Feeds into eZ

In this particular case I am making a feed using google, plug the search terms into the url.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=fishing+%2B+walleye+%2B+MO&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
This above when entered as a single line in a feed reader, creates a google news feed based upon the search “fishing + walleye + MO”. The three pieces of text surrounding the + signs in other [...]

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eZ API

Last night I started reading thru kernel code trying to figure out how eZ is put together. A very long term proposition given the extent of of the code base. But how else to grasp the nature of eZ Publish?
This AM, mostly by chance (a recent forum post on ez site that I [...]

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New content class in eZ

Remarkably simple, remarkably useful.
To create a new content class using eZ, it is simplest to start with a copy of an existing class. In this case, creating a “Fishing Report” class from the “Article” class.
Go to Setup->Classes->Content-> Make a copy of the “Article” content class by clicking the copy icon. It saves as [...]

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