A great way to learn ez3

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.

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