Development Tools for eZ Publish

The screenshot below shows the eZ publish menu in PHPEdit with the cache management and the syntax highlighted template code.

The screenshot below shows the eZ publish code completion feature within PHPEdit.

The screenshot below shows the online documentation.

The screenshot below shows the template navigation feature. This automatically shows all templates used on an eZ publish page. These templates are displayed in a expandable tree. By clicking on a template you can edit it directly.

Kate and Quanta are two popular editors on the KDE desktop. Kate is a much used general purpose editor and Quanta is an editor focusing on HTML and web development technologies.

There is a contribution on ez.no contributed by Liu Spider.If you like the editors Kate or Quanta under KDE then this syntax mode is for you.

The screenshot below shows Kate editing a template file with this configuration file.

The screenshot below shows Quanta using the same configuration.

Download this extension from the eZ.no contributions.

Kate can be downloaded from: http://kate.kde.org/

Quanta can be downloaded from: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org

Macromedia Dreamweaver is a well known editor used by designers and web professionals using Mac or Windows.

Lukas Serwatka has contributed an extension for Dreamweaver which enables syntax highlighting for eZ Publish templates. The extension also enables a special eZ Publish toolbar for inserting eZ Publish template code snippets like if statements and loops.

The screenshot below shows Dreamweaver with this extension enabled editing a template file.

Download the Dreamweaver tab plugin from the eZ Publish contributions.

Download 30 day free trial or buy Macromedia Dreamweaver MX from Macromedias website .

Emacs is a well known editor in the Unix world used in application development for decades. It is highly configurable to the extent where jokes are made that ?emacs is a good operating system, it just lacks a decent editor?.

Jan Borsodi has developed and contributed a configuration file for Emacs which is tuned for eZ Publish development. This is the editor and configuration used by most of the eZ systems developers.

The screenshot below shows Emacs editing an eZ Publish template file.

The screenshot below shows Emacs editing eZ Publish PHP code.

The emacs configuration for eZ Publish development together with the needed Site lisp archives can be downloaded here.

GNU Emacs is free software and can be found at the GNU.org website http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programming editor for windows. James Ward has contributed a syntax highlighting mode for eZ Publish template syntax.

The screenshot below shows EditPlus editing an eZ Publish template with the eZ tpl syntax configuration.

Download Edit+ syntax highlight mode from the eZ Publish contributions

Download 30 days free trial or buy EditPlus http://www.editplus.com/

If you are using or know about other development environments that works well with eZ Publish please let us know by commenting on this article.

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 02:55:43
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 02:55:43
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 02:55:43
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 02:55:44
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 02:55:44
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.1751 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	69

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0057	589.0391	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0057	0.0029	741.6641	39.4453
Module start 'content'	0.0086	0.1651	781.1094	759.9766
Module end 'content'	0.1737	0.0013	1,541.0859	12.3125
Script end	0.1750		1,553.3984

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0031	1.7622	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.7422	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0012	0.6968	1	0.0012
Mysqli_queries	0.0613	35.0191	69	0.0009
Looping result	0.0006	0.3518	67	0.0000
Template Total	0.1458	83.3	2	0.0729
Template load	0.0020	1.1635	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.1438	82.1269	2	0.0719
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.0531	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0069	3.9582	11	0.0006
state_identifier_array	0.0052	2.9881	12	0.0004
Override
Cache load	0.0047	2.6873	80	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute name	0.0016	0.9278	11	0.0001
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0001	0.0671	10	0.0000
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0101	11	0.0000
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0124	7.1024	10	0.0012
General
dbfile	0.0107	6.0882	30	0.0004
String conversion	0.0000	0.0038	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/article.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/article.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
21	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/newpage.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/newpage.tpl
10	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/embed.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/embed.tpl
10	content/view/embed.tpl	embed/image.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/embed/image.tpl
10	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
8	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/link.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/link.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 68 Number of unique templates used: 9

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs