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A great way to learn ez3

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Sol Millin

Monday 14 April 2003 3:50:30 pm

If you are like me... struggling to understand how ez3 works...

A great way to learn is...

in .../design/demo/override/templates

take one of the templates e.g.

pagelayout_section_3.tpl

and back it up.

then go to work inserting your html comments in pagelayout_section_3.tpl!! e.g.

<!-- this is just before template call to page_head.tpl -->
{include uri="design:page_head.tpl" enable_glossary=false() enable_help=false()}
<!-- end of page_head.tpl include -->

Then run the demo web site (in this case the News Section).
It appears on your browser.
Then select (ie6) menu item View then select Source
and a beautiful html listing appears which includes all your comments!

You can now start appreciating what does what in ez3.

You can obviously do the same in the 'called' templates eg.page_head.tpl etc. etc.

Hope you find this as helpful as I have.

Good ez3 learning

Sol Millin
byron bay
australia

You can also use template comment if you wish to make other template code not execute, e.g.
{* start of non-execute of template code
blah blah blah
*}

although this may suffer from the limitation of non-nesting of template comments.

Sol Millin

Monday 14 April 2003 3:55:33 pm

Another very helpful tip is to install phpMyAdmin and examine the structure and contents of the nextgen mySQL database (assuming your using mySQL).

You'll find phpMyAdmin at
www.phpMyAdmin.net

Happy ez3 learning.

Karsten Jennissen

Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:06:40 am

Hi Sol,

if you turn on the debug output that gives you the templates used, you automatically get a lot of valuable info.

http://ezwiki.blanko.info/index.php/3XHT_SeeTmpls

Just as an additional help. :-)

Karsten

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 30 2025 00:44:25
Script start
Timing: Jan 30 2025 00:44:25
Module start 'content'
Timing: Jan 30 2025 00:44:25
Module end 'content'
Timing: Jan 30 2025 00:44:26
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime0.2091 sec
Peak memory usage2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries141

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0071 587.9063180.8438
Module start 'content' 0.00710.0178 768.750093.7109
Module end 'content' 0.02490.1842 862.4609524.2734
Script end 0.2090  1,386.7344 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00371.7912200.0002
Check MTime0.00140.6759200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00070.311810.0007
Mysqli_queries0.132863.49281410.0009
Looping result0.00160.75381390.0000
Template Total0.183787.810.1837
Template load0.00120.578210.0012
Template processing0.182587.265810.1825
Override
Cache load0.00090.436110.0009
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00090.417510.0009
XML
Image XML parsing0.00030.132510.0003
General
dbfile0.01014.8113200.0005
String conversion0.00000.002130.0000
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
1pagelayout.tpl<No override>extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/pagelayout.tplEdit templateOverride template
 Number of times templates used: 1
 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs