Custom tag to display child nodes

Next topic

Author	Message
Bruce Morrison	Sunday 07 March 2004 7:31:29 pm I've created a custom tag to display a nodes children in an XML field. I wondering if this is a good idea or the best way of doing this. I realise that this could be accomplished using the object tag but that would require that each child is added individually. Also the list would not be updated if children were added or removed. Interested in comments. Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish
Balazs Halasy	Monday 08 March 2004 12:40:42 am Hmm, What is it that you wish to accomplish/do? I usually just add an additional boolean attribute to the class which says "Show children" - then I make sure that the template code checks this and that it displays the children (in a desired fashion) if the attribute is true (the checkbox is checked). Not sure if this is helps or not... Balazs
Bruce Morrison	Monday 08 March 2004 3:18:14 pm Hi Balazs, I'm tring to give the content editor more control over the content. If I have a content type that has a title and a xml text field, then this custom tag would allow them to place a list of the current nodes children within the text. Because it is in a XML text field it can be placed anywhere within the content and given context. If you add a "show children" attribute that shows the child objects then they are displyed in a static fashion, controled by the template. This also needs to be added to each content type, where as having a custom tag works across all content types (that contain an XML text field). I guess I'm looking at the cleanest way of doing this. Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish

Author

Message

Sunday 07 March 2004 7:31:29 pm

I've created a custom tag to display a nodes children in an XML field. I wondering if this is a good idea or the best way of doing this.

I realise that this could be accomplished using the object tag but that would require that each child is added individually. Also the list would not be updated if children were added or removed.

Interested in comments.

Cheers
Bruce

My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison
Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish

Balazs Halasy

Monday 08 March 2004 12:40:42 am

Hmm,

What is it that you wish to accomplish/do? I usually just add an additional boolean attribute to the class which says "Show children" - then I make sure that the template code checks this and that it displays the children (in a desired fashion) if the attribute is true (the checkbox is checked). Not sure if this is helps or not...

Balazs

Bruce Morrison

Monday 08 March 2004 3:18:14 pm

Hi Balazs,

I'm tring to give the content editor more control over the content. If I have a content type that has a title and a xml text field, then this custom tag would allow them to place a list of the current nodes children within the text. Because it is in a XML text field it can be placed anywhere within the content and given context.

If you add a "show children" attribute that shows the child objects then they are displyed in a static fashion, controled by the template. This also needs to be added to each content type, where as having a custom tag works across all content types (that contain an XML text field).

I guess I'm looking at the cleanest way of doing this.

Cheers
Bruce

My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison
Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 19 2025 06:17:14
Script start
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 06:17:14
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 06:17:14
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 06:17:14
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 06:17:14
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.7803 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	57

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0049	590.2969	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0049	0.0026	742.9219	39.4609
Module start 'content'	0.0075	0.7715	782.3828	544.4375
Module end 'content'	0.7790	0.0013	1,326.8203	12.1563
Script end	0.7803		1,338.9766

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0028	0.3618	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0012	0.1540	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0008	0.1016	1	0.0008
Mysqli_queries	0.7270	93.1653	57	0.0128
Looping result	0.0005	0.0646	55	0.0000
Template Total	0.7530	96.5	2	0.3765
Template load	0.0023	0.2995	2	0.0012
Template processing	0.7507	96.2030	2	0.3753
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0128	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0009	0.1110	1	0.0009
state_identifier_array	0.0013	0.1610	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0019	0.2374	22	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0014	0.1784	2	0.0007
Fetch class attribute name	0.0010	0.1279	5	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0011	0.1467	2	0.0006
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0017	6	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0018	0.2353	22	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0009	4	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	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
5	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 15 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0002 secs