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Chris Collins	Tuesday 19 July 2005 5:44:25 pm OK forgive me if I sound like a total noobie but I guess that's what I am. So I will just start asking questions, because after looking around a bit, I still do not have the kind of understanding I want. 1. I am somewhat familiar with the concept of the CMS. If I understand this correctly, it is basically a way to design and edit a website through an online interface. Is this the gist? 2. I am designing my current project in Photoshop to get the layout I want. Then I will go into Dreamweaver and create all the HTML and insert the PHP and other scripts where they are needed. If I am experienced with designing sites already, is this the way I should continue doing it? The CMS concept seems like it would be better suited for clients to maintain their own site once it is created by me, their designer. Is this the idea? 3. I think it might be faster to use a web interface to edit my site, instead of opening Dreamweaver, connecting to the server, etc. If the CMS provides a way for me to edit any element of code online, this will save time. I am getting close? 4. What is this about a scripting language unique to ez publish? Well, that's about it for now. Sorry if these are really newbie questions. I did look around for answers but could not find the ones I was looking for. Any help is greatly appreciated of course :) Chris
Frey Staso	Wednesday 20 July 2005 4:24:12 pm 1. Yes. eZpublish has many features available, it all depends on what you want it for. It allows users to add, edit and delete "content objects" which can be anything you wish. These content objects can be files, news articles, links, pictures, etc. 2. Yes, however eZpublish doesn't like php very well and it takes some complicated steps that I haven't figured out to use php scripting. eZpublish does a lot of php stuff automatically though. Basically it works like this, you create a pagelayout.tpl which is the navigation shell of your webpage. This way you only have to set up navigation once. All your content stuff is loaded into this shell. 3. Instead of traditional web "pages" eZpublish is best used when you take advantage of their override system. There are default "views" so when you say, view a news article, it will be stuffed into your pagelayout.tpl shell but it will ALSO be formatted according to the override. When you first start, it will be formatted with a basic view. These override templates are easily edited online in the admin view. 4. eZpublish has its own syntax for retrieving content objects, if statements, etc. I strongly suggest that you follow along with the "chess" tutorial found here: http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_cms/documentation/building_an_ez_publish_site

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Tuesday 19 July 2005 5:44:25 pm

OK forgive me if I sound like a total noobie but I guess that's what I am. So I will just start asking questions, because after looking around a bit, I still do not have the kind of understanding I want.

1. I am somewhat familiar with the concept of the CMS. If I understand this correctly, it is basically a way to design and edit a website through an online interface. Is this the gist?

2. I am designing my current project in Photoshop to get the layout I want. Then I will go into Dreamweaver and create all the HTML and insert the PHP and other scripts where they are needed. If I am experienced with designing sites already, is this the way I should continue doing it? The CMS concept seems like it would be better suited for clients to maintain their own site once it is created by me, their designer. Is this the idea?

3. I think it might be faster to use a web interface to edit my site, instead of opening Dreamweaver, connecting to the server, etc. If the CMS provides a way for me to edit any element of code online, this will save time. I am getting close?

4. What is this about a scripting language unique to ez publish?

Well, that's about it for now. Sorry if these are really newbie questions. I did look around for answers but could not find the ones I was looking for. Any help is greatly appreciated of course :)

Chris

Frey Staso

Wednesday 20 July 2005 4:24:12 pm

1. Yes. eZpublish has many features available, it all depends on what you want it for. It allows users to add, edit and delete "content objects" which can be anything you wish. These content objects can be files, news articles, links, pictures, etc.

2. Yes, however eZpublish doesn't like php very well and it takes some complicated steps that I haven't figured out to use php scripting. eZpublish does a lot of php stuff automatically though.

Basically it works like this, you create a pagelayout.tpl which is the navigation shell of your webpage. This way you only have to set up navigation once. All your content stuff is loaded into this shell.

3. Instead of traditional web "pages" eZpublish is best used when you take advantage of their override system. There are default "views" so when you say, view a news article, it will be stuffed into your pagelayout.tpl shell but it will ALSO be formatted according to the override. When you first start, it will be formatted with a basic view. These override templates are easily edited online in the admin view.

4. eZpublish has its own syntax for retrieving content objects, if statements, etc.

I strongly suggest that you follow along with the "chess" tutorial found here:
http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_cms/documentation/building_an_ez_publish_site

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 22:23:15
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 22:23:15
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 22:23:15
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 22:23:16
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 22:23:16
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.7849 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	54

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0057	589.4922	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0057	0.0026	742.1172	39.4453
Module start 'content'	0.0084	0.7751	781.5625	494.8984
Module end 'content'	0.7834	0.0014	1,276.4609	12.3281
Script end	0.7848		1,288.7891

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0038	0.4846	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0019	0.2439	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0009	0.1135	1	0.0009
Mysqli_queries	0.7398	94.2532	54	0.0137
Looping result	0.0006	0.0722	52	0.0000
Template Total	0.7551	96.2	2	0.3776
Template load	0.0021	0.2623	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.7530	95.9401	2	0.3765
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0171	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0007	0.0938	1	0.0007
state_identifier_array	0.0012	0.1468	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0016	0.2076	19	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0007	0.0939	2	0.0004
Fetch class attribute name	0.0018	0.2254	3	0.0006
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0008	0.0971	2	0.0004
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0012	3	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0010	0.1220	16	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0009	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/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 9 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs