How to get Content out of the DB with a Datatype

Tuesday 03 October 2006 11:54:40 am

Hi Daniel,

As I understand, you need to fill a form with some fields plus one field with a URL and then send them to a URL ?

It looks like to a trackback system ! You should have a look the eZTrackback extension [1]. This extension defines a workflow that sends some data (title, begin of the text, ...) to some URLs when the user writes a blog entry and click on "Send for publishing".

[1] http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/ez_trackback

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Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:49:01 am

Hi Daniel,

Here is tutorial how to build new datatype:
http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/development/extensions/datatypes/new_datatype

You can also generate one using Setup->RAD in admin interface. Of course code from RAD is just a base which you need to extend. Take a look at this topic for information how to connect to ex. database.

http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/using_external_db_in_extension_causes_problems

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Wednesday 04 October 2006 4:51:01 am

Or a custom edit handler: check out the nice article by Lukazs:

http://serwatka.net/index.php/en/blog/ez_publish_3_8_new_custom_edit_handler

Paul

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Wednesday 04 October 2006 6:14:36 am

Hi Daniel

The datatype (class attribute level)

Here is an example:

http://pubsvn.ez.no/community/trunk/extension/personlist/datatypes/sckpersonlist/

But the custom edit handler is more appropriate if you want to do things with existing datatypes/classes

hth

Paul

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