Questions on EZ Book - community.ez.no

Friday 30 July 2004 12:34:44 pm - 7 replies

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Frederik Holljen	Saturday 31 July 2004 2:14:32 am I know the book covers writing a payment gateway extension. As far as I know it also covers setting up a basic site. There is some more info at amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/books/1904811019/026-0701541-2125209
Tony Wood	Saturday 31 July 2004 8:42:14 am Hi Derek, The book covers in some detail the WorldPay module made avaiable in GPL on http://pubsvn.ez.no. It covers the creation of a HTML call to WorldPay and also the Callback mechanism to confirm the order with your server. Although the module is written for WorldPay, I believe the concepts will work for other payment engines. The WorldPay module is in WorldPay commerce sites and is working well. I hope you enjoy it. --tony Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood Vision with Technology Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development Power to the Editor! Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future
D C	Saturday 31 July 2004 11:13:12 am Thanks guys. Looks like this book is a must for all EZ newbies? One more thing, I'm not particular strong in coding from scratch. Does the book provide basic codes, so that I can work with it, and modify them. Another qns, does it cover how the login system works, and how it is integrated with the rest of the modules? So that one common login is needed for the whole site, forums, shopping, admin etc. If this is the case, think I will be ordering one through amazon tomorrow! Thanks again, Derek
Tony Wood	Saturday 31 July 2004 11:52:21 am The book gives a description and sample code yes. It is a good reference and has many examples of using and extending eZ publish. More info available here: http://www.packtpub.com/book/ezpublish The WorldPay code is GPL and available here http://pubsvn.ez.no/websvn/listing.php?repname=community&path=/trunk/extension/worldpay/&rev=0&sc=1 Just grab code via SVN Checkout, see info on http://pubsvn.ez.no/ --tony Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood Vision with Technology Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development Power to the Editor! Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future
Lior Solomon	Monday 23 August 2004 3:11:29 am Well frankly we bought the book even before it was printed :) and truly we are not using it too much most of the discussions/chapters are touching the concept but not real core documantation thats nice for someone that just heard about ez but for someone that is about to build his website using ez and made that decision. it seems usless to buy that book. esspecialy regarding the price :) so i would advice that until ez crew wont comeup with a reference guide for core users , stick with the forum. its good enough to do your first steps. still i'm very impressed by the efforts you guys are putting into this product. and would have buy the book just as an ez patriot :) cheers
Björn Dieding@xrow.de	Monday 23 August 2004 3:30:05 am API Documentation: http://pubsvn.ez.no/doxygen During daily work, I find myself always reading pure code to understand HOW STUFF WORKS. I think at a certain point it becomes useless to document certain stuff, because the ppl that would actually profit from this information are probably too less. Looking for a new job? http://www.xrow.com/xrow-GmbH/Jobs Looking for hosting? http://hostingezpublish.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GMT +01:00 Hannover, Germany Web: http://www.xrow.com/
Edward Eliot	Tuesday 24 August 2004 6:43:17 am I bought the book a while ago. Generally it seems OK although I still have a lot of unanswered questions which I feel should have been answered by this book. It certainly doesn't replaced ez.no for information. I just spend ages working out, for example, that $module_result is only available in pagelayout.tpl (Correct me if I am wrong!) and I found this on the site. The case studies at the back of the book are very interesting, particularly the one on "Centre for Design" from both an eZpublish and more general point of view. If you are based in the UK ordering the book from the publishers PackT is very quick and easy. Generally a good read though.

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