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Pascal Specht	Thursday 28 June 2007 5:47:58 am Hello, I want to modify the behavior of the ezwebin extension. For example, I don't want the image upload in the user/register dialog, and I don't like some of the translations, which I want to replace by different ones... I would like to avoid putting my modifications inside this extension, because I fell it will make it too difficult to keep up with further releases. I thought that the least intrusive and best way would be to write another extension that also for example defines a user/register.tpl, its translations etc..., and that replaces those of the ezwebin extension. I don't know if it is possible to 'extend' an extension through another extension this way. Any hints or tips would be great! Thanks in advance, Pascal
André R.	Thursday 28 June 2007 6:54:44 am yes it is, but you have to make sure that 'your_extension' is before ezwebin in the ActiveExtensions list in override/site.ini But for overriding the design elements you should have a 'your_design' and define it as the primary design in your frontpage siteaccesses site.ini. eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe \|\| eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore \|\| eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription @: http://twitter.com/andrerom
Pascal Specht	Thursday 28 June 2007 7:20:40 am Hi André, your advise to modify the include order of the extensions in the settings/override/site.ini.append.php worked immediately and made my day! Thanks a lot, Pascal

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Pascal Specht

Thursday 28 June 2007 5:47:58 am

Hello,

I want to modify the behavior of the ezwebin extension. For example, I don't want the image upload in the user/register dialog, and I don't like some of the translations, which I want to replace by different ones...

I would like to avoid putting my modifications inside this extension, because I fell it will make it too difficult to keep up with further releases.

I thought that the least intrusive and best way would be to write another extension that also for example defines a user/register.tpl, its translations etc..., and that replaces those of the ezwebin extension.

I don't know if it is possible to 'extend' an extension through another extension this way.

Any hints or tips would be great!

Thanks in advance,
Pascal

André R.

Thursday 28 June 2007 6:54:44 am

yes it is, but you have to make sure that 'your_extension' is before ezwebin in the ActiveExtensions list in override/site.ini

But for overriding the design elements you should have a 'your_design' and define it as the primary design in your frontpage siteaccesses site.ini.

eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe || eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore || eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription
@: http://twitter.com/andrerom

Pascal Specht

Thursday 28 June 2007 7:20:40 am

Hi André,

your advise to modify the include order of the extensions in the settings/override/site.ini.append.php worked immediately and made my day!

Thanks a lot,

Pascal

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:05:59
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:05:59
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:05:59
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:06:00
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 05:06:00
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.4988 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	0.0066	589.2891	152.6563
Module start 'layout'	0.0066	0.0028	741.9453	39.4922
Module start 'content'	0.0094	0.4879	781.4375	541.7109
Module end 'content'	0.4973	0.0015	1,323.1484	12.1094
Script end	0.4988		1,335.2578

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0034	0.6886	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0014	0.2807	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0013	0.2542	1	0.0013
Mysqli_queries	0.4446	89.1210	57	0.0078
Looping result	0.0006	0.1207	55	0.0000
Template Total	0.4660	93.4	2	0.2330
Template load	0.0019	0.3753	2	0.0009
Template processing	0.4641	93.0340	2	0.2320
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0199	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0009	0.1708	1	0.0009
state_identifier_array	0.0010	0.2063	2	0.0005
Override
Cache load	0.0015	0.3076	22	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0007	0.1492	2	0.0004
Fetch class attribute name	0.0015	0.3011	5	0.0003
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0011	0.2205	2	0.0006
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0024	6	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0017	0.3443	23	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0020	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
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	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: 13 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs