Tutorials & articles written by Felix Woldt

An Introduction to Developing eZ Publish Extensions

Most Content Management System requirements can be fulfilled by eZ Publish without any custom PHP coding. But sooner or later experienced eZ Publish implementers get to the point where a project needs some special functionality and it becomes necessary to develop extensions.

(This tutorial was initially published on 21/01/2008, and refreshed to match the 4.x series on 10/12/2010)

eZ debug

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Script start
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Module start 'layout'
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Module start 'community'
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Module end 'community'
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Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0548 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	24

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0070	587.7891	152.6094
Module start 'layout'	0.0071	0.0026	740.3984	31.6719
Module start 'community'	0.0097	0.0441	772.0703	447.8281
Module end 'community'	0.0537	0.0010	1,219.8984	10.6406
Script end	0.0548		1,230.5391

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0027	4.9852	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0012	2.2579	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	1.2719	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.0284	51.7819	24	0.0012
Looping result	0.0002	0.3697	21	0.0000
Template Total	0.0367	67.0	2	0.0184
Template load	0.0012	2.1183	2	0.0006
Template processing	0.0356	64.8798	2	0.0178
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.2118	1	0.0001
Override
Cache load	0.0008	1.4163	6	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0009	1.5964	1	0.0009
state_identifier_array	0.0004	0.7260	1	0.0004
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute name	0.0008	1.4176	1	0.0008
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0070	1	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0002	0.2766	7	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0165	3	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	community/articles.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/community/articles.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/emphasize.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/emphasize.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 6 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs