Lukasz Serwatka - serwatka.net

eZ Publish design contest 2007 started few weeks ago. Basically task is very simple: make nice design. Main price is really great. You can win a free ticket for eZ Conference 2007 and learn about what is happening in the information business from a content management, business and technology standpoint. And the most important get first-hand information from eZ developers, eZ partners and community members. As eZ crew member I can not join contest for obvious reasons ;) however I can share few tips that will make your designing process easier.

EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format, and is a standard for storing interchange information in image files, especially those using JPEG compression. Most digital cameras now use the EXIF format. eZ Publish can analyse uploaded images and store information about image files in database (ezimage datatype). EXIF the PHP extension needs to be available in your environment. See PHP manual for more information.

One of the great features in eZ Publish 3.9 is an extension that supports integration with the Open Document Format. In this short tutorial I will explain how to configure the eZODF extension to work on the Windows platform.

One of many key features of eZ publish is flexibility. You can customize almost anything from content structure to output presentation. In this short tutorial I will show how to specify a custom default root node class.

One of many new features in eZ publish 3.8 is the ability to use a custom edit handler. A custom edit handler is an extension (a PHP class) that enables you to perform actions based on user choices during the object editing process. You can add some extra POST data processing, connect to an external database , update data and much more, depending on your needs.