by Harry Fuecks

If you've ever trawled the PHP listings over at Hotscripts in search of a content management system to save you from writing your own, you've probably run into eZ publish, a PHP-based CMS application, and thought "Wow!" Jubilant, you tried to install it... to no avail. Desperately you tried reading the code, only to discover it made no sense whatsoever. Finally you skulked away to a quiet corner to lick your wounds, resorting to PHP Nuke instead.

This series is all about eZ publish and why it deserves the title of "PHP's killer app". We'll start from the ground up: first, we'll install eZ publish in your development environment. Then, we'll learn how to make use of its features, and customise it to your specific needs. Finally, we'll take a look under the hood, to discover what makes eZ publish tick: how eZ publish is in fact a powerful tool to help you build your own Web-based applications.

By the end, you'll be able not only to set up and customise your own eZ publish Website, but to build your own applications to run within eZ publish.