Just read the ezPublish book four times. What a piece of crap. I did get the answer to my question in the first pages though.
The rest of the book was... "you can do this with ezPublish... " but it is to involved for this book. No explaination of how the code works, no uml, no flow charts of any kind. Bad editing in that items are discussed a linear fashion rather than grouping. For instance Classes have a single short paragraph describing what they are then you have to wait 10 pages to create one and then there is no explaination of why you would want to create a class in the first place. The use of the word class is going to have to change also. How can a OOP progammer read this without thinking that "class" is a code class or object? If I want to create a class I break out a text editor, I don't log into the admin section of a CMS.
The entire book is missing the point. When I see a chapter on " integrating exteranl code" then I want to see how to do this and I want an example to go from. I don't want to have the book tell be that you can use a database, session or httpxml! I know that! But how and where do you hook into ezPublish??
Adminstration techniques are missing totally. There are no scenarios used and examples of solutions given. The chapter on RMIT use of ezPublish is a joke as an example.
For the price this book should have been 1200 pages thick. At that size then it might have actually contained some useful information. "Learning ezPublish 3" almost turned me off to buying the Typo3 book, which is a great volume and well worth reading.
All in all ezPublish is still suffering from a lack of a good resource for how to use the software. So if you are thinking about this book then don't. Download the docs, examples and articles and run down to an all night copy store and have it printed out. This would be a better use of your time and money.
