Javascript Timeline, xml and eZ publish

Friday 22 June 2007 2:28:48 pm

Simplified example of your script (removed on resize)

 var tl, my_second_param = 'node_id:33456', tlXmlUrl = {'mymodul/myview/myfirst_param'|ezurl()} + '/' + my_second_param;

{literal}
function onLoad() {

                var eventSource = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource(0);
                var theme = Timeline.ClassicTheme.create();
                theme.event.bubble.width = 320;
                theme.event.bubble.height = 220;
                var d = Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime("2000")
                var bandInfos = [
                                Timeline.createBandInfo({
                                                width:         "100%", 
                                                intervalUnit:  Timeline.DateTime.YEAR, 
                                                intervalPixels: 200,
                                                eventSource:   eventSource,
                                                date:          d,
                                                theme:         theme
                                                                  })
                                       ];
                tl = Timeline.create(document.getElementById("kstl"), bandInfos, Timeline.HORIZONTAL);
                Timeline.loadXML( tlXmlUrl, function(xml, url) {                 
                                eventSource.loadXML(xml, url);
                });
}
{/literal}

So create your own extension with a module and the views you need, for example 'timeline/xml', and output anything you need from php.

Unless the xml is static, in that case I would use ezdesign or ezroot operator on the uri, point it to the file and make sure that apache rewrite rules allow xml files.

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Saturday 23 June 2007 2:44:07 pm

I have no intension's to solve the problem ( witch in practice means writing the whole extension ) for you..
But if you can specify what your struggling with, the forum is the right place :)

But I guess your asking how to generate xml from ez content?
If so there are many answears:
* use one of the xml output extensions
*write your own, where you fetch the content you need and generate xml off it

For the last one, some examples:
fetching examples: http://zev.ez.no/svn/extensions/ezjaxx/extension/ezjaxx/modules/jaxx/expand.php

    $node_array = eZContentObjectTreeNode::subTree(
        array( 'Depth' => 1,
               'Limit'            => $maxNodes,
               'Offset'           => 0,
               'SortBy'           => $sort_array,
               'DepthOperator'    => 'eq',
               'ClassFilterType'  => 'include',
               'ClassFilterArray' => $showClasses
               ), $nodeID );

ezxml example: http://zez.org/article/articleprint/76/
(but you can concat the xml manually as a string if you want)

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Sunday 24 June 2007 1:16:44 pm

If you are talking about client side:
This depends on witch ajax/javascript library you use, but from what I understood from you code, timeline does this for you.
Timeline.loadXML("/design/ar/javascript/ks-ksa.xml",....

Serve side:
You need to fetch whatever data that goes into your timeline and create the xml timeline needs out of that fetched content.

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