Your favorite Template editor?

Saturday 04 December 2010 8:24:04 am

Hi all,

just a quick question:

What's your favorite Website-Editor, when you work in eZ templates?

My requirements would be:

• ez4 template language "understanding" (syntax hightlighting, maybe auto-completing of control structures etc)
• Build-in (S)FTP client. Optionally SSH-Client for up/downloadin templates
• Nice to have: Build-in SVN client and/or Git client
• Not too expensive
• Running in Win7, 64 bit

I know, there used to be some "plugins" or so for eclipse for the ez4 template language, but i'm not up-to-date, if they are still maintained. I know, that no HTML editor will understand ez4 templates "build-in".

So, what are your favorites and their pros and cons?

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Monday 06 December 2010 3:19:50 am

Hi

Try Sublime. Excellent editor!

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Monday 06 December 2010 6:12:27 am

+1 !

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Friday 14 January 2011 12:40:35 pm

Thanks a lot for your advices. I really appreciate it and i'm sure, others will, too!

I had some time now to install eclipse and the smile and ezclipse plugins. I also installed the smile extension (smileclasses) on an ez 4.4 site. Look fine to me.

Now: I get the XML output from smileclasses and i can create a view named "Classes View" in Eclipse. But i cannot find the box where i shall enter the URL http://hostname.de/smileclasses/export as described in Paul Wilsons documentation from 2007 in Page 15. So, how do i tell the "Classes View" view on where to get it's data from?

Gaetano: Your shameless self-promotion did not include the path to your project: http://projects.ez.no/ezdebug_template_operator . It looks very nice to me for debugging values, so i don't see too much connection to the "Classes" view in smileclasses. But i will definitly give this a try, too :)

Now, i have 3 ezPublish Template editors in Eclipse: "ez TPL Editor", "JAC ez Template Editor" and "Smile TPL editor". From a first look, they seem to differ in the syntax highlighting. What else? I read about "auto-completion", but i could not find this "in action" yet. Any hints? Which TPL file editor shall i use and where can i determine the default one in Eclipse (that all new to me).

I guess, I should create a PHP project for each ez site, yes? Or is there some better Project type? I didn't find an "ez site" project or so.

Last, but not least: How do I use "Var Browser for exploring the $node variable." from ezclipse?

Thanks in Advance!

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com