Tutorials & articles written by Bertrand Maugain

How to Skin an eZ Publish Now Site

Although there is lots of information about how to publish and manage content with eZ Publish Now (such as the Flash demos and the Website Interface documentation) until now there hasn't been much written about design issues. The purpose of this tutorial is to show that creating a custom design based on eZ Publish Now is as easy as publishing content.

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 02:48:24
Script start
Timing: Jan 18 2025 02:48:24
Module start 'community'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 02:48:24
Module end 'community'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 02:48:24
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime0.1303 sec
Peak memory usage4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries155

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0038 593.3594172.9766
Module start 'community' 0.00380.0353 766.3359424.9766
Module end 'community' 0.03900.0912 1,191.3125407.7422
Script end 0.1302  1,599.0547 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00342.5940200.0002
Check MTime0.00141.0458200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00050.390010.0005
Mysqli_queries0.088768.06711550.0006
Looping result0.00110.86571500.0000
Template Total0.118791.220.0594
Template load0.00100.736120.0005
Template processing0.117890.415720.0589
Template load and register function0.00010.080010.0001
Override
Cache load0.00060.455080.0001
states
state_id_array0.00040.324910.0004
state_identifier_array0.00020.165810.0002
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute name0.00040.337710.0004
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00070.509010.0007
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute0.00000.002210.0000
XML
Image XML parsing0.00030.192710.0003
General
dbfile0.00131.0290180.0001
String conversion0.00000.001610.0000
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/link.tpl<No override>design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/link.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: 5
 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs