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Damien Pobel	Tuesday 18 October 2005 3:08:07 am I'm making a website with eZPublish 3.7 and I want to build a page which sums up all published news. So I want to display only the first 200 characters of each news. I've seen the shorten template operator (http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/reference/template_operators/strings/shorten) but I 'm actually not able to retrieve the content of the news without any (xml or html) tags. Is there a way to get an XML Block as a plain text or a better way to retrieve just the beginning of it ? Thanks for help. Damien Planet eZ Publish.fr : http://www.planet-ezpublish.fr Certification : http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/372448 Publications about eZ Publish : http://pwet.fr/tags/keywords/weblog/ez_publish
Michael D.	Tuesday 18 October 2005 6:59:18 am You can use $node.data_map.your_xml_block.content.output.output_text\|strip_tags() to recieve a plain text version. But you'll have to create a custom template operator named strip_tags first: http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_cms/documentation/development/extensions/template_operator The function could look like this (including all the required stuff described in the above documentation page): ... case 'strip_tags': { $operatorValue = $this->strip_tags($operatorValue, $namedParameters['allowable_tags']); } break; ... function strip_tags($str, $allowable_tags) { return strip_tags($str, $allowable_tags); }
Mads Ovesen	Tuesday 18 October 2005 7:20:44 am The strip_tags function is already defined i php. All you need to do follow the instructions from the above-mentioned link, and just add the line: PHPOperatorList[reverse]=strip_tags to template.ini. Remember to clear to cache. /m
Michael D.	Tuesday 18 October 2005 7:26:02 am I thought that this method works only for PHP functions with one parameter as stated in the docs: http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_cms/documentation/development/kernel/custom_template_operators (Notes/Limitations) Does this work for PHP functions with more than one parameters yet or does it work because the second paramter of strip_tags is optional? Anyway, if it does, Mads way is surely the easier one.
Mads Ovesen	Tuesday 18 October 2005 7:44:55 am The method only works with functions that take one parameter, but as you mention the second parameter of strip_tags is optional. This must be the reason, why it works in this case. I have succesfully used the simple method. /m
Michael D.	Tuesday 18 October 2005 8:54:19 am Good to know, this will save me some time in the future. Thank you for the info. Now it's Damien's turn to say if this is what he was looking for. g
Damien Pobel	Friday 21 October 2005 2:02:15 am thanks for answers ! I use the "PHPOperatorList" method as I need to remove all tag. Juste one precision if somebody needs to use this method, you have to write $your_text\|strip_tags() and not strip_tags($your_text) Damien Planet eZ Publish.fr : http://www.planet-ezpublish.fr Certification : http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/372448 Publications about eZ Publish : http://pwet.fr/tags/keywords/weblog/ez_publish

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 31 2025 08:04:15
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	1.3484 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	71

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0058	588.2500	151.2266
Module start 'layout'	0.0058	0.0027	739.4766	36.6797
Module start 'content'	0.0085	1.3389	776.1563	1,015.3203
Module end 'content'	1.3473	0.0010	1,791.4766	15.8281
Script end	1.3483		1,807.3047

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0042	0.3096	16	0.0003
Check MTime	0.0018	0.1353	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	0.0544	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	1.2425	92.1509	71	0.0175
Looping result	0.0011	0.0790	69	0.0000
Template Total	1.3075	97.0	2	0.6538
Template load	0.0029	0.2119	2	0.0014
Template processing	1.3046	96.7560	2	0.6523
Template load and register function	0.0019	0.1397	1	0.0019
states
state_id_array	0.0012	0.0916	1	0.0012
state_identifier_array	0.0015	0.1141	2	0.0008
Override
Cache load	0.0024	0.1758	39	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0012	0.0914	3	0.0004
Fetch class attribute name	0.0038	0.2804	8	0.0005
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0259	1.9216	3	0.0086
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0016	9	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0272	2.0205	16	0.0017
String conversion	0.0000	0.0005	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/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
7	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
10	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
3	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: 30 Number of unique templates used: 7

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs