Handling site settings?

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Deane Barker	Friday 15 October 2004 3:12:27 pm What's the commonly accepted way for eZ publish to handle site settings? By this, I mean fairly static content. For instance: -- In the footer, the company needs to have their address displayed. I don't want to hardcode this into the template, in case they want to change it. So, were do I...put it? Where should this content get stored? -- If I make a standard site, it would be nice to let the user change the colors of the site from the admin interface. Just pick a color "scheme" from a drop down list. Etc. These things are content, but not like news articles, etc. They're "behind the scenes" content. I'm tempted to create a "Settings" object in the content root and just instantiate that by NodeID then read the attributes off it. It wouldhave attributes for "Footer Text" and "Color Scheme." To edit global site settings, the user could just edit that object and change what he/she wants to change. This object wouldn't be visible anywhere other than the admin side of the site. Any thoughts from anyone else? Deane
Lazaro Ferreira	Friday 15 October 2004 5:43:21 pm Hi, As you said you can perfectly use setup .ini settings to setup your site parameters, AFAIK this is the preferred way to do it Normally you override ezp .ini files to put your custom settings , like you did in site.ini.append.php while setting up your siteaccess From templates you can access your custom settings using ezini(...) operator take a look at http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/reference/template_operators/data_extraction/ezini i.e: if you take a look at ezp toolbar implementation, you will see it is implemented using .ini settings, you can also see how it is used in ezp standard pagelayout (EZP 3.4.+) Lazaro http://www.mzbusiness.com
Deane Barker	Friday 15 October 2004 7:25:07 pm Can you control access permissions to INI files? I'd hate for the users to have access to ALL the settings in ALL the files. Is there any way to give them access to this one INI file only? Deane
Deane Barker	Saturday 16 October 2004 2:24:59 pm How about this -- I would like to create a entirely separate "tree" from the "content" tree (is it a "module"? Confused about the terminology). This way I can let my users create objects in this tree that I can use for site settings. For instance, a "Menus" folder could have "Menu" children which could have "Link" children, etc. I have the eZ Publish book, and I think I could figure it out. But what am I'm talking about? A new module? Deane

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 16:33:06
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	0.9119 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	60

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0051	587.8047	152.6094
Module start 'layout'	0.0051	0.0039	740.4141	39.4141
Module start 'content'	0.0090	0.9016	779.8281	546.3125
Module end 'content'	0.9106	0.0011	1,326.1406	12.5000
Script end	0.9117		1,338.6406

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0032	0.3518	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0014	0.1522	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0008	0.0830	1	0.0008
Mysqli_queries	0.8584	94.1315	60	0.0143
Looping result	0.0006	0.0681	58	0.0000
Template Total	0.8773	96.2	2	0.4387
Template load	0.0018	0.1920	2	0.0009
Template processing	0.8755	96.0158	2	0.4378
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0110	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0016	0.1716	1	0.0016
state_identifier_array	0.0012	0.1325	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0015	0.1651	31	0.0000
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0005	0.0548	2	0.0002
Fetch class attribute name	0.0009	0.1033	5	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0005	0.0601	2	0.0003
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0016	7	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0007	0.0749	16	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0010	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
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/literal.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/literal.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 17 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs