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Nathalie Grimaud	Tuesday 28 November 2006 3:19:27 am I'm very interested in the ezxnewsletter extension but it seems to be very complex to setup and use it. So before I start this hard job I would be curious having your feedback on the time that must be spent to make this extension run. Any volunteer to share its experience? Nathalie
Claudia Kosny	Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:52:36 pm Hi Nathalie If there is a viable alternative for you, better wait a bit. There is no documentation so you never know whether the functionality you want is already there or not. E. g. I wanted my users to check or uncheck a checkbox during registration or later on their account page and subscribe or unsubscribe them depending on the state of this checkbox. As I did not find any helpful documentation or user comments I had to check the source code. The source code is not very well formatted (mainly just to much spacing everywhere) but at least the subscription classes were fairly easy to understand. Still this took way to much time. The usability is not very good - I think it offers to much functionality which, due to the lack of documentation, ends up being confusing. According to a comment on the project page they are working on the documentation, this should make things much easier but might take a while. I cannot tell you the amount of time I spent with the newsletter, I just can tell you that I was quite often quite frustrated... Good luck Clauida

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Tuesday 28 November 2006 3:19:27 am

I'm very interested in the ezxnewsletter extension but it seems to be very complex to setup and use it.

So before I start this hard job I would be curious having your feedback on the time that must be spent to make this extension run.

Any volunteer to share its experience?
Nathalie

Claudia Kosny

Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:52:36 pm

Hi Nathalie

If there is a viable alternative for you, better wait a bit. There is no documentation so you never know whether the functionality you want is already there or not.
E. g. I wanted my users to check or uncheck a checkbox during registration or later on their account page and subscribe or unsubscribe them depending on the state of this checkbox. As I did not find any helpful documentation or user comments I had to check the source code. The source code is not very well formatted (mainly just to much spacing everywhere) but at least the subscription classes were fairly easy to understand. Still this took way to much time.

The usability is not very good - I think it offers to much functionality which, due to the lack of documentation, ends up being confusing.

According to a comment on the project page they are working on the documentation, this should make things much easier but might take a while.

I cannot tell you the amount of time I spent with the newsletter, I just can tell you that I was quite often quite frustrated...

Good luck

Clauida

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 16:28:43
Script start
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Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 16:28:43
Module start 'content'
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Module end 'content'
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Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	1.0117 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	54

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0052	589.3281	152.6094
Module start 'layout'	0.0052	0.0024	741.9375	39.4141
Module start 'content'	0.0076	1.0027	781.3516	459.8516
Module end 'content'	1.0103	0.0014	1,241.2031	8.1875
Script end	1.0117		1,249.3906

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0032	0.3175	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1277	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0008	0.0774	1	0.0008
Mysqli_queries	0.9702	95.8929	54	0.0180
Looping result	0.0009	0.0916	52	0.0000
Template Total	0.9842	97.3	2	0.4921
Template load	0.0022	0.2146	2	0.0011
Template processing	0.9820	97.0650	2	0.4910
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0163	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0009	0.0865	1	0.0009
state_identifier_array	0.0012	0.1221	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0018	0.1780	16	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0008	0.0778	2	0.0004
Fetch class attribute name	0.0013	0.1266	2	0.0006
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0005	0.0484	2	0.0002
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0007	2	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0007	0.0694	10	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0006	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
2	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
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: 10 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs