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Wednesday 16 March 2011 10:14:18 am

So, looking around I just found that one way is to create a new class, create a template for how it should look as embedded (so that I can insert it in the content area), create an extension that should control what that class will do when embedded.

Did I got this right? Is this the way to do what I want? Is there other way? What is the recommended approach?

Thursday 17 March 2011 7:05:22 am

Hi Sao, here are some answers that might help...

The best way to display the latest news on the frontpage is like this:

• create a class Frontpage
• create an object of that class
• set the ini setting IndexPage to the content/view/full of this new created object
• in your design folder create a template override for the full view of the Frontpage class. See the content/view/*.tpl sections in the Template override docs, and the examples on the bottom
• in the override template for the Frontpage class put the HTML that your frontpage should have
• in the same template fetch the latest news using content/tree template fetch function (you'll get an array of ezcontentobjecttreenode) and display it where they should be (see foreach)

And remember to clear the cache if you don't see any changes.

As for the inclusion of the graph generated by the linux program I suggest this:

• make your linux program output the picture in your design folder in the "images" subfolder
• in the template override for Frontpage, hard link an <img> tag to show the image from that file

I would also suggest you to read the eZP Documentation, especially this parts:

• http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Concepts-and-basics
• http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Templates

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Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it!

Hubert Farnsworth

Sunday 20 March 2011 1:56:29 pm

As far as I know, there's not a mechanism in the fetch function to exclude a subtree. There is a parameter "exclude_object_ids", but you have to specify the object ids of ALL the object you want to exclude, and not only their parents.

But one sollution would be to fetch only the pages from the specific nodes. Something like this...

Let's say you have this content structure:

 - News (node_id: 10)
   - Economy (node_id: 11)
   - Politics (node_id: 12)
   - Sport (node_id: 13)
   - Old news (node_id: 14)

and that you want to fetch all the articles from "News" except the ones from "Old news".

To get that you would do a fetch that gets all the articles from "Economy", "Politics" and "Sport" like this:

{def $news_items=fetch(content, tree, hash(
 parent_node_id, array(11, 12, 13),
 class_filter_type=include,
 class_filter_array=array(article)
))
}

Hope it helps.

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Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it!

Hubert Farnsworth