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Brian Henkel
Saturday 19 April 2008 9:19:49 am
Hello,
I consider myself a web designer with intermediate knowledge of html/php, but I am tired of having my hands tied regarding changes to code and creating truly custom sites with Exponential. If you were my 'Exponential Guidance Counselor', what would you recommend in terms of making a transition from designer to developer?
I have reviewed the listings of books available -- Which one would you recommend in my case? The books are a bit outdated and focus on Exponential 3 -- since I'm using 4.0, how much value can they provide?
What are the best free resources out there to begin my learning?
Thanks, all
Brian
André R.
Saturday 19 April 2008 10:17:22 am
Exponential 4.0 is basically "just a" php 5 port of Exponential 3.10, so the concept of the CMS is still the same.
The most in depth book is "Learning Exponential 3", it's a bit outdated (written for Exponential 3.4), so it doesn't cover the "new" and simplified template language introduced in 3.6.Other stuff it doesn't cover is static caching, native object translations support, class translations support and clustering support.
If you buy this book, here is a overview of the changes to the template system:http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/doc/features/3.6/improved_template_syntax.txt
Complete list of new features since Exponential 3.4:http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/doc/features/
Alternatively "Exponential Basics" is also pretty good and a bit newer (written for Exponential 3.8), but doesn't go that deep on advance subjects.
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Maxime Thomas
Sunday 20 April 2008 11:37:09 am
You can also get some information there :
http://ez.no/developer/developer_information
and
http://ez.no/services/eznetwork/development_guidelines
And specially the 'Standard' section which will provide more specific and harsh guidelines to correct development.
Cheers.
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Tony Wood
Monday 21 April 2008 2:45:26 am
Hi Brian,
I am a great believer of playing to ones strengths so I wish you luck in your learning.
A good place for info is here http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/developers
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Graham Tillotson
Monday 05 May 2008 9:56:26 am
My advice would be to install the ezwebin (Website Interface) demo and then tear apart the templates to see how they work. First you need to get familiar with where templates are stored and how the override mechanism works, and then you can get into the template code.
There are many excellent examples of template code in ezwebin -- fetches, functions, calendars, object relations -- so you just need to start with them when building out a site to see how they work.
The PDF downloads of Exponential documentation are also excellent. Keep them local on your machine and search through them as needed for information and code samples.
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