Creating Books

Tuesday 05 February 2008 3:58:38 am

Hi all,

Small intro; I'm new to EZ publish, coming from Drupal, and have been trying out for a few days now. Not bad.

Question, is there an easy and quick way to create online books in EZ Publish? I've got a few thesis and essays that I wrote on OpenOffice.org, ranging from 30 to a few hundred pages each, with tables, images, text, and so on. I'd like to publish them on my website (a section in EZ 4.0), preferably in plain html format where the users can browse through them page by page, with an index somewhere.

If possible, 'download to pdf' and 'printer friendly' features would also be good, but let's start from the top first..

Is this doable? Or am I looking at the idea the wrong way ?

Thanks

Tuesday 05 February 2008 2:21:04 pm

Thanks Ekkehard,

This is exactly what I need. I set it up, and went through the PDF and tried to upload a few .odt files I have. It only uploaded the pictures that are in the file, but the end result was an empty page..

I'm not sure if it's because I'm on OSX with a third party setup of PHP, but i'll check it out in the morning. Maybe I can get something out of the logs.

Wednesday 06 February 2008 12:45:27 am

I forgot to mention, I'm using NeoOffice at the moment, which is a OSX fork of OpenOffice.org. I hope that doesn't make a difference.. it accepted the extension. And from what I understood in the documentation, it's only used for conversions, which I don't need at the moment if i'm just importing .odt files.

After examining the ini file, and adding the path to the zip binary, it still doesn't work. So i decided to examine the error log..

When uploading the file, I get the following errors

[Wed Feb  6 10:22:59 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/site_admin
[Wed Feb  6 10:23:00 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/site_admin
[Wed Feb  6 10:23:01 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/index_treemenu.php

When choosing the destination folder for the upload to be placed, again, i get these two

[Wed Feb  6 10:24:54 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/site_admin
[Wed Feb  6 10:24:56 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/index_treemenu.php

The same 2 errors above happen with every page I go to, which leads me to believe that they may not be related to my problem or have any effect on it.

I'm not sure what else I can provide to help solve the problem, I appreciate the help.

Thanks

Thursday 07 February 2008 4:45:51 am

I've enabled debugging and uploaded two files, one that works, and one that doesn't.

I noticed these errors on both files while uploading, not sure if they're critical though,

When uploading,

Unsupported top node table-of-content<br/>
Unsupported top node line-break<br/>
Unsupported top node tab<br/>
Failed converting var/ezwebin_site/storage/images-versioned/1958/1-eng-GB/Object11. to alias 'original' in directory 'var/ezwebin_site/storage/images-versioned/1958/1-eng-GB'
Unsupported node: ellipse<br>
Unsupported node: line<br>

Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: dns_server_address line 524 and strong in Entity, line: 524 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: address line 524 and strong in Entity, line: 524 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: strong line 524 and paragraph in Entity, line: 524 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: strong line 524 and section in Entity, line: 528 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: paragraph line 524 and section in Entity, line: 690 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Premature end of data in tag section line 1 in Entity, line: 1867 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:35
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Premature end of data in tag section line 1 in Entity, line: 1867 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltexttype.php on line 329

And when visiting the node in the admin section

Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: dns_server_address line 524 and strong in Entity, line: 524 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: address line 524 and strong in Entity, line: 524 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: strong line 524 and paragraph in Entity, line: 524 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: strong line 524 and section in Entity, line: 528 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: paragraph line 524 and section in Entity, line: 690 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Premature end of data in tag section line 1 in Entity, line: 1867 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Warning: PHP	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
DOMDocument::loadXML() [<a href='function.DOMDocument-loadXML'>function.DOMDocument-loadXML</a>]: Premature end of data in tag section line 1 in Entity, line: 1867 in /Users/samirgreadly/Sites/ez4/kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmltext.php on line 107
Timing:	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Feb 07 2008 08:56:40
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Friday 29 February 2008 3:21:29 am

Hi Ekke,

I've already tried the link beforehand, and it still gives me the same problems as shown above. I'm still stuck in square 1, and cannot seem to move forward...

I'd appreciate the help.

Thanks.