node_id, object_id, idontgetit_id

Wednesday 11 June 2003 3:03:00 am

Just to make this clear: object_id is the ID of the object. node_id is the ID of one of the nodes of an object. A node is a placement in the content tree.

When you view an object, you view it from a certain location (placement), so the number after /content/view/full/ is the node id. When editing an object, the nodes are irrelevant, so the number after /content/edit/ is the object id.

You can not specify node ids, the system does that. How to find the node id of a given node? Look at the link, the node id is the number after /content/view/full/.

Nodes are assigned whenever you specify locations for an object.

Thursday 14 August 2003 4:39:21 am

iDOgetit_id!!

Glad I slept on this. I've just made a bit of a breakthrough in understanding how this works.

I was using eZContentObject::fetch($object_id) but I didn't realise I could use eZContentObjectTreeNode::fetch($node_id) to get straight to the requried node. You can then retreive the associated content object id using:

$wantedNode = eZContentObjectTreeNode::fetch($node_id);
$wantedObjectID = $wantedNode->attribute('contentobject_id');
$wantedObject = eZContentObject::fetch($wantedObjectID);

It's very simple once you know how - just really difficult to find what you need amongst all the available functions etc.

I do love eZpublish, but it can be a bit frustrating at times!!

- Chris