Data export/extraction for use in other solutions.

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Christoffer Andersson	Tuesday 31 August 2004 1:31:45 am How easy is it to extract/export data from ezpublish to use/reuse in other solutions? Let's say I have added several articles...how easy is it to reuse this and make them into normal html pages in eg. frontpage? I am tasked with evaluating different solutions, and one of the top requirements until further notice, is that I should be able to reuse any work that I put into a solution if we decide to go for something else. I hope this was an adequate explanation. Any comments appreciated. Christoffer
Alex Jones	Tuesday 31 August 2004 6:42:23 am Christoffer, your content should be reusable via a few methods: 1. You can use eZ SiteCopier to generate a static version of every page on your site, and then edit it with an standard HTML editor. 2. You could create a special view of your site that prints out the date in any way you wish. For example, if you need to import everything into another system, you could set up a new view, with the appropriate overrides to print out each field of an article separated by commas or tabs etc. 3. Everything is stored in MySQL, and can be retrieved via PHP, some searches on this site should show you some code to use to pull information from the database 4. There is also Content Object Export, but I'm not sure if it will be all that helpful for importing into other packages as I've never used it. I would guess that it would take some major tweaking, if not outright change. <b>Documentation</b> <b>eZ Sitecopier:</b> http://ez.no/community/contributions/hacks/ez_sitecopier <b>Content object import and export:</b> http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/ez_publish_3_4/content_object_import_and_export <b>Content object export with ezpm:</b> http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/ez_publish_3_4/content_object_export_with_ezpm Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

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Tuesday 31 August 2004 1:31:45 am

How easy is it to extract/export data from ezpublish to use/reuse in other solutions?

Let's say I have added several articles...how easy is it to reuse this and make them into normal html pages in eg. frontpage?

I am tasked with evaluating different solutions, and one of the top requirements until further notice, is that I should be able to reuse any work that I put into a solution if we decide to go for something else.

I hope this was an adequate explanation.

Any comments appreciated.

Christoffer

Alex Jones

Tuesday 31 August 2004 6:42:23 am

Christoffer, your content should be reusable via a few methods:

1. You can use eZ SiteCopier to generate a static version of every page on your site, and then edit it with an standard HTML editor.
2. You could create a special view of your site that prints out the date in any way you wish. For example, if you need to import everything into another system, you could set up a new view, with the appropriate overrides to print out each field of an article separated by commas or tabs etc.
3. Everything is stored in MySQL, and can be retrieved via PHP, some searches on this site should show you some code to use to pull information from the database
4. There is also Content Object Export, but I'm not sure if it will be all that helpful for importing into other packages as I've never used it. I would guess that it would take some major tweaking, if not outright change.

Documentation
eZ Sitecopier: http://ez.no/community/contributions/hacks/ez_sitecopier
Content object import and export: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/ez_publish_3_4/content_object_import_and_export
Content object export with ezpm: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/ez_publish_3_4/content_object_export_with_ezpm

Alex
[ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ]

When in doubt, clear the cache.