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Brian Henkel	Saturday 19 April 2008 9:19:49 am Hello, I consider myself a web designer with intermediate knowledge of html/php, but I am tired of having my hands tied regarding changes to code and creating truly custom sites with eZ Publish. If you were my 'eZ Publish Guidance Counselor', what would you recommend in terms of making a transition from designer to developer? I have reviewed the listings of books available -- Which one would you recommend in my case? The books are a bit outdated and focus on eZ Publish 3 -- since I'm using 4.0, how much value can they provide? What are the best free resources out there to begin my learning? Thanks, all Brian
André R.	Saturday 19 April 2008 10:17:22 am eZ Publish 4.0 is basically "just a" php 5 port of eZ Publish 3.10, so the concept of the CMS is still the same. The most in depth book is "Learning eZ publish 3", it's a bit outdated (written for eZ Publish 3.4), so it doesn't cover the "new" and simplified template language introduced in 3.6. Other stuff it doesn't cover is static caching, native object translations support, class translations support and clustering support. If you buy this book, here is a overview of the changes to the template system: http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/doc/features/3.6/improved_template_syntax.txt Complete list of new features since eZ Publish 3.4: http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/doc/features/ Alternatively "eZ Publish Basics" is also pretty good and a bit newer (written for eZ Publish 3.8), but doesn't go that deep on advance subjects. 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
Maxime Thomas	Sunday 20 April 2008 11:37:09 am You can also get some information there : http://ez.no/developer/developer_information and http://ez.no/services/eznetwork/development_guidelines And specially the 'Standard' section which will provide more specific and harsh guidelines to correct development. Cheers. Maxime Thomas maxime.thomas@wascou.org \| www.wascou.org \| http://twitter.com/wascou Company Blog : http://www.wascou.org/eng/Company/Blog Technical Blog : http://share.ez.no/blogs/maxime-thomas
Tony Wood	Monday 21 April 2008 2:45:26 am Hi Brian, I am a great believer of playing to ones strengths so I wish you luck in your learning. A good place for info is here http://ezpedia.org/wiki/en/ez/developers T Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood Vision with Technology Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development Power to the Editor! Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future
Graham Tillotson	Monday 05 May 2008 9:56:26 am My advice would be to install the ezwebin (Website Interface) demo and then tear apart the templates to see how they work. First you need to get familiar with where templates are stored and how the override mechanism works, and then you can get into the template code. There are many excellent examples of template code in ezwebin -- fetches, functions, calendars, object relations -- so you just need to start with them when building out a site to see how they work. The PDF downloads of eZ Publish documentation are also excellent. Keep them local on your machine and search through them as needed for information and code samples. DUO : CONSULTING Web content management experts www.duoconsulting.com

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:

Total runtime	0.7912 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	69

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0070	589.0391	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0070	0.0031	741.6641	39.4453
Module start 'content'	0.0101	0.7796	781.1094	697.7109
Module end 'content'	0.7897	0.0014	1,478.8203	16.1641
Script end	0.7912		1,494.9844

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0033	0.4203	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0014	0.1782	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0010	0.1261	1	0.0010
Mysqli_queries	0.7173	90.6534	69	0.0104
Looping result	0.0009	0.1111	67	0.0000
Template Total	0.7529	95.2	2	0.3764
Template load	0.0022	0.2784	2	0.0011
Template processing	0.7506	94.8735	2	0.3753
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0300	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0015	0.1858	1	0.0015
state_identifier_array	0.0015	0.1878	2	0.0007
Override
Cache load	0.0019	0.2443	38	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0007	0.0882	5	0.0001
Fetch class attribute name	0.0018	0.2307	9	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0022	0.2796	5	0.0004
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0022	9	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0026	0.3275	35	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0013	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
5	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
8	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
3	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: 22 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs