looking for a better way of writing this code...

Thursday 30 August 2007 8:06:37 am

No, the id is actually 54 on ezwebin sites.
Try doing something like this:

$classID = eZContentObjectTreeNode::classIDByIdentifier( 'template_look' );
$obj = eZContentObject::fetchFilteredList( array( 'contentclass_id' => $classID ), 0, 1 );
$dataMap = $obj->dataMap();
$matrix = $dataMap['my_matrix']->content();

PS: The first line is cached by ez publish, so normally no database lookup.

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Thursday 30 August 2007 11:32:10 am

Ahh, forgot that it's a array, my bad ;)
But its a array of content objects, not nodes.

$classID = eZContentObjectTreeNode::classIDByIdentifier( 'common_ini_settings' );
$chosenObjectList   = eZContentObject::fetchFilteredList( array( 'contentclass_id' => $classID ), 0, 1 );
$chosenObject = $chosenObjectList[0];

Nodes are what you get when use the eZContentObjectTreeNode fetch functions.
Or fetching it from the object like this:

$chosenMainNode = $chosenObject->attribute('main_node');

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