Learning Plone/Zope

Setup

• Install Linux for best performance and stability, the Ubuntu Linux Distribution is highly recommended! If you use windows, cygwin (a POSIX environment on Windows) is strongly recommended.
• Install latest version of Plone . A self-contained Windows Plone installer is also available.
• Install subversion
• (Optional) Install Eclipse IDE with Plone
• (Optional) Install PostgreSQL DBMS

Essential Reading

• Plone How-tos
• Plone patterns and best practices
  • See last section on how to debug Plone code
• ZPT - Zope Page Templates
• Creating content for Plone 2.1
• Working with structured Text
• Archetypes
• ZSQL: connecting Plone to external DBMS

Online Reference

• Andy McKay's Definitive Guide to Plone (online book, also available from NTU library)
• Long list of Plone documentation

Sample Code

• Archetypes
  • Quick & dirty way to build your product, check out the following into your plone instance: ArchExample
    • do a restart after you check out this, or enable debugging
    • when installed, ArchExample will create a new custom content type called: article, which you can add anywhere within your plone site using the add content link. You can modify the source to create different fields in this custom content type.
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