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A great way to learn ez3

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Sol Millin

Monday 14 April 2003 3:50:30 pm

If you are like me... struggling to understand how ez3 works...

A great way to learn is...

in .../design/demo/override/templates

take one of the templates e.g.

pagelayout_section_3.tpl

and back it up.

then go to work inserting your html comments in pagelayout_section_3.tpl!! e.g.

<!-- this is just before template call to page_head.tpl -->
{include uri="design:page_head.tpl" enable_glossary=false() enable_help=false()}
<!-- end of page_head.tpl include -->

Then run the demo web site (in this case the News Section).
It appears on your browser.
Then select (ie6) menu item View then select Source
and a beautiful html listing appears which includes all your comments!

You can now start appreciating what does what in ez3.

You can obviously do the same in the 'called' templates eg.page_head.tpl etc. etc.

Hope you find this as helpful as I have.

Good ez3 learning

Sol Millin
byron bay
australia

You can also use template comment if you wish to make other template code not execute, e.g.
{* start of non-execute of template code
blah blah blah
*}

although this may suffer from the limitation of non-nesting of template comments.

Sol Millin

Monday 14 April 2003 3:55:33 pm

Another very helpful tip is to install phpMyAdmin and examine the structure and contents of the nextgen mySQL database (assuming your using mySQL).

You'll find phpMyAdmin at
www.phpMyAdmin.net

Happy ez3 learning.

Karsten Jennissen

Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:06:40 am

Hi Sol,

if you turn on the debug output that gives you the templates used, you automatically get a lot of valuable info.

http://ezwiki.blanko.info/index.php/3XHT_SeeTmpls

Just as an additional help. :-)

Karsten