Tutorials & articles written by Grenland Web (Jan Kudlicka)

Helper Child Nodes: User-Friendly Search Results and Preventing Full Node Views

In an eZ Publish site structure, there are often nodes that hold information shown as a part of the full view of a different, master node. Showing the full view of the former nodes themselves or getting them as search results is usually unwanted. This is common in forums and articles with comments. If you have worked on a large eZ Publish project, you have probably used such nodes without referring to them by a specific name. This article explains what we call “helper nodes” and also explores the template and content model issues involved, relating specifically to search results.

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:34:48
Script start
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:34:48
Module start 'community'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:34:48
Module end 'community'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:34:48
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime0.1478 sec
Peak memory usage4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries154

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0060 587.5234172.9766
Module start 'community' 0.00600.0400 760.5000419.7891
Module end 'community' 0.04600.1017 1,180.2891407.7734
Script end 0.1477  1,588.0625 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00372.4871200.0002
Check MTime0.00140.9570200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00080.519710.0008
Mysqli_queries0.100668.07121540.0007
Looping result0.00120.79861490.0000
Template Total0.131689.120.0658
Template load0.00110.732920.0005
Template processing0.130588.337920.0653
Template load and register function0.00010.060310.0001
Override
Cache load0.00070.491940.0002
states
state_id_array0.00070.499510.0007
state_identifier_array0.00050.314810.0005
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute name0.00070.503510.0007
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00080.513710.0008
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute0.00000.005510.0000
XML
Image XML parsing0.00030.171210.0003
General
dbfile0.00130.9025180.0001
String conversion0.00000.002610.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

CSS/JS files loaded with "ezjscPacker" during request:

CacheTypePacklevelSourceFiles
CSS0extension/community/design/community/stylesheets/ext/jquery.autocomplete.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/scrollbars.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tabs.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/roadmap.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/content.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/star-rating.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/syntax_and_custom_tags.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/buttons.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tweetbox.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css
extension/bcsmoothgallery/design/standard/stylesheets/magnific-popup.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/star_rating.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/libs/fontawesome/css/all.min.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.res.css
JS0extension/ezjscore/design/standard/lib/yui/3.17.2/build/yui/yui-min.js
extension/ezjscore/design/standard/javascript/jquery-3.7.0.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.core.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.widget.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.easing.1.3.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.tabs.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.hoverIntent.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.popmenu.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jScrollPane.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.mousewheel.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cycle.all.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/jquery.scrollTo.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cookie.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezstarrating_jquery.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.initboxes.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/app.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/twitterwidget.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/community.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/roadmap.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ez.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezshareevents.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/main.js

Templates used to render the page:

UsageRequested templateTemplateTemplate loadedEditOverride
1community/articles.tpl<No override>extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/community/articles.tplEdit templateOverride template
1content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl<No override>extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tplEdit templateOverride template
1content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl<No override>extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tplEdit templateOverride template
1pagelayout.tpl<No override>extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/pagelayout.tplEdit templateOverride template
 Number of times templates used: 4
 Number of unique templates used: 4

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs