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access ezpublish context outside the ezpublish instance folder

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Jitesh Rana

Tuesday 05 April 2011 7:31:14 am

How to access eZpublish context outside the eZpublish instance folder? for e.g. I have one PHP file which contains the code to access eZpublish API, and it is placed outside the eZpublish instance folder. Need urgent help Jitesh.

Michael Lee

Tuesday 05 April 2011 7:44:31 am

Assume your doc root is: /var/www and your script is test.php, you can run it as following:

1. cd /var/www

2. php bin/php/ezexec.php test.php

Hope this is helpful.

Michael Lee | Managing Director | ZerusTech Ltd | www.zerustech.com

Skype: zerustech

Jitesh Rana

Tuesday 05 April 2011 10:27:36 pm

Hello Michael,

Thanks for Reply, but you have mentioned about running php script from command line. we have a PHP page that runs from web browser. so how to run that php file from web browser, also i have put php inside the eZ publish folder but when i browse it is not working..

need your assistance to get worked it

Thanks,

Jitesh

Michael Lee

Tuesday 05 April 2011 10:58:08 pm

Hi Jitesh,

If this is the case, I think the best solution is converting your scripts into an eZ Publish extension.

Kind regards,

Michael

Michael Lee | Managing Director | ZerusTech Ltd | www.zerustech.com

Skype: zerustech

Gaetano Giunta

Wednesday 06 April 2011 1:57:12 am

If you put your php file in the eZP root dir, and include autoload.php as 1st thing, it "should" work.

But this is really not the recommended way to do things: eZP is an MVC application, and as such it is preferrable to always use the index.php file as frontend controller.

If you want to execute some php code in an eZP context, from the web, you can:

- create a module and a view, then access it via index.php, or

- create a webservice using ezjscore, ggwebservices or the native soap functionality. Then you can access it from your web app via ajax or webservice calls

Note that when integrating eZP with other web apps, it is often easier to run the other app from within an eZP module/view than the opposite.

Bye

Gaetano

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