how to: use various operators in one instruction?

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Alessandro Cipriani	Monday 26 April 2004 2:28:42 am hi all in my pagelayout i need to: make the md5 of a string use only the first 8 chars of the resultant string i tried to: {"mystring"\|md5\|shorten(8)} but didn't work in general i need to have multiple operators in one instruction string any hint? best regards alessandro
Alex Jones	Monday 26 April 2004 6:53:22 am I don't know if it is possible to assign multiple operators in one string. But perhaps you could try something along the lines of setting the first modified string as a variable and then outputing the variable with the second operator? Otherwise, you may need to create an operator for each combination of strings. So in this instance you would need to set up a single operator that creates the md5 and then shortens the result to send to the template. Alex Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>
Balazs Halasy	Monday 26 April 2004 7:09:17 am Hmm, this should be possibe. However, I think you should use the "extract_left" operator instead of "shorten". Have you tried to do it like this? {"mystring"\|md5\|extract_left(8)} The operator is documented here: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/reference/template_operators/strings/extract_left Balazs UPDATE: I just tested the code above with the latest alpha of 3.4, it works. It should also work with earlier versions of eZ publish.
Alex Jones	Monday 26 April 2004 7:27:12 am It's good to know that you can use multiple operators like that Balazs! Thanks for posting the info. Alex Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>
Alessandro Cipriani	Monday 26 April 2004 7:32:28 am yes, it works! thank you alessandro