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Peter Bailey	Monday 31 March 2003 12:58:25 pm Hey all I've discovered recently that I can get quite a bit done just using the template operators and functions, but can't help but feel like I'm giving too much power to the templates. First, some data. Here's an example folder My Folder >> Articles >> >> Customer Success Stories >> >> Technical Solutions >> >> Editorials From this, I would like to create the following <ul> <li><a href="/content/view/sitemap/243/">Customer Success Stories</a></li> <li><a href="/content/view/sitemap/244/">Technical Solutions</a></li> <li><a href="/content/view/sitemap/245/">Editorials</a></li> </ul> Also, the sitemap view isn't what I really want, but Now, I'm assuming it would be better to add some PHP to index.php to build an object of data that I access in the template instead. I admit, opening index.php I feel a bit lost. Am I in the correct line of thinking?
Kai Duebbert	Monday 31 March 2003 5:49:21 pm My experience: I've built 5 sites with eZ publish 2.2.x and to do what you want to do, I had to dive into the PHP code of eZ publish. I can assure you that you don't want to do that! It's not that the code is bad (it's written very cleanly unlike most other open source CMS), BUT you will run into big problems, if you want to update the system to a new version of eZ publish which you will want to do in the future. You will have to track down all the changes you did and do/adapt them again. Even though this problem can be circumvented, you will have much better (and more portable!) results by using the templates (which should stay compatible with new releases). The new template system is great and gives you a lot of power. Use it! Just my 2 cents.

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Monday 31 March 2003 12:58:25 pm

Hey all

I've discovered recently that I can get quite a bit done just using the template operators and functions, but can't help but feel like I'm giving too much power to the templates.

First, some data. Here's an example folder

My Folder
>> Articles
>> >> Customer Success Stories
>> >> Technical Solutions
>> >> Editorials

From this, I would like to create the following

<ul>
<li><a href="/content/view/sitemap/243/">Customer Success Stories</a></li>
<li><a href="/content/view/sitemap/244/">Technical Solutions</a></li>
<li><a href="/content/view/sitemap/245/">Editorials</a></li>
</ul>

Also, the sitemap view isn't what I really want, but

Now, I'm assuming it would be better to add some PHP to index.php to build an object of data that I access in the template instead. I admit, opening index.php I feel a bit lost.

Am I in the correct line of thinking?

Kai Duebbert

Monday 31 March 2003 5:49:21 pm

My experience:
I've built 5 sites with eZ publish 2.2.x and to do what you want to do, I *had* to dive into the PHP code of eZ publish. I can assure you that you don't want to do that!

It's not that the code is bad (it's written very cleanly unlike most other open source CMS), BUT you will run into big problems, if you want to update the system to a new version of eZ publish which you will want to do in the future. You will have to track down all the changes you did and do/adapt them again.

Even though this problem can be circumvented, you will have much better (and more portable!) results by using the templates (which should stay compatible with new releases).

The new template system is great and gives you a lot of power. Use it!

Just my 2 cents.

eZ debug

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Script start
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Module start 'layout'
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Module start 'content'
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Module end 'content'
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Script end

Main resources:

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Peak memory usage	8,192.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
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Module start 'layout'	0.0047	0.0034	739.3438	220.6875
Module start 'content'	0.0080	0.0156	960.0313	997.6797
Module end 'content'	0.0236	0.0015	1,957.7109	29.9922
Script end	0.0252		1,987.7031

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0026	10.3640	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0010	4.0350	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	2.9548	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.0020	7.7671	3	0.0007
Looping result	0.0000	0.0350	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0011	4.2	1	0.0011
Template load	0.0008	3.3041	1	0.0008
Template processing	0.0002	0.9013	1	0.0002
Override
Cache load	0.0006	2.4502	1	0.0006
General
dbfile	0.0036	14.3470	8	0.0005
String conversion	0.0000	0.0256	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	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs