News from Planet eZ publish

CPlot 0.1beta released

eZ Projects — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:07:01 GMT

Changed cplot fetch function to operator template. Now supports flash, svg, and png. Can plot line, bar, pie,and radar charts as flash, svg, and png, but can only display candle charts as flash.

A sample can be found at "site_admin_url/cplot/test. Be aware, svg files is not supported by IE.

http://projects.ez.no/cplot/downloads

Cross-siteaccess internal links in eZ Publish

Mugo Web — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:43:07 GMT

Among the many advantages of hosting multiple sites on the same eZ Publish installation is the ability to create internal links. eznode:// and ezobject:// links preserve the accuracy of the generated URL links even when content is moved around or renamed within any of the sites. (Of course, you can also use such links even when you host only one site.) However, out of the box, eZ Publish is not siteaccess-aware when generating cross-siteaccess links. For example, if your site sitea.com is contained within the subtree /sitea and your site siteb.com is contained within the subtree /siteb, internal links from sitea.com to siteb.com would end up linking to "sitea.com/siteb/article" instead of "siteb.com/article". While the user can be redirect with rewrite rules, it still creates a confusing user experience. Here's a simple solution jointly developed with another eZ Partner Granite Horizon that results in generated links that are siteaccess-aware.

Few improvements to Netgen Suggest extension

eZ Projects — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:49:13 GMT

We added few improvements

- added impression count for suggested terms (contributed by Olivier Portier)

- added ezfind installation id as a optional ini setting to avoid using database at all

Enjoy

GanttChart 1.0 alpha released

eZ Projects — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:55:35 GMT

Just released an alpha version. It works with ez web interface.

http://projects.ez.no/ganttchart/downloads

Extended Attribute Filters in eZ Publish

David Linnard — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:06:24 GMT

For a previous article I covered the various ways you can export user data using eZ Publish. In the article, I suggested how you can export all users who have logged in over the previous month using an extended attribute filter. In this article I will cover creating several different Extended Attribute Filters so you [...]

TwitterBlock for eZ flow 1.0 alpha available for download

eZ Projects — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:42:45 GMT

Now you can show your tweets on your eZ flow site:

http://projects.ez.no/twitterblock/downloads

Netgen Open Graph extension 1.0 released

eZ Projects — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:46:22 GMT

Netgen Open Graph is an extension for eZ Publish CMS that allows simple integration with Open Graph protocol, either official or compatible with Facebook.

Released version 1.0 alpha

eZ Projects — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:32:37 GMT

Just finished version 1.0 alpha.

It's a new block type for eZ flow sites. It's like default media carousel block type, but has auto play.

Release of version 1.0

eZ Projects — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:36:37 GMT

Display of a web page can be slowered by the loading of static resources, such as stylesheets and javascript files. To optimize those files, we can compress them, by removing unused caracters.

Version 1.0 alpha released!

eZ Projects — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:28:40 GMT

I just finished my first release of this extension.

This extension allow publications of Unity Web Player Files, http://unity3d.com/

A demo of what is it is available on: http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/tropical-paradise

Download: http://projects.ez.no/unity3d/downloads

CPlot - Chart Extension 0.1alpha released!

eZ Projects — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:54:41 GMT

Chart template operator extension.

ModelViewer 1.0 released!

eZ Projects — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:20:20 GMT

This is the first version of my 3d model viewer extension for eZ publish, a video is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3xFE3NvkNk

It works nice, I have to improve the model visualizer because it zoom in/out the model with the mouse scroll button, but the mouse scroll button also scrolls down the page, so it is the extension's "version 1.0 little tiny problem".

ModelViewer 1.0 alpha released!

eZ Projects — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:20:20 GMT

This is the first version of my 3d model viewer extension for eZ publish, a video is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3xFE3NvkNk

opLightBox2 alpha version 0.1 is out

eZ Projects — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:39:40 GMT

I am glad to announce this brand new alpha version of opLightBox2, an simple integration of the lightbox javascript/ajax gallery by Lokesh Dhakar.

Snowdon Hike

Derick Rethans — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:08:00 GMT

Snowdon Hike

London, UK

Tuesday, July 20th 2010, 00:08 BST

This weekend I escaped London to enjoy two of my other hobbies: hiking and photography. This time I headed to Wales to climb up the 1085 meter high mountain Snowdon; Wales' highest peak. As opposed to staying in Llanberis, the town closest to many of the routes up Snowdon, I stayed in the little quiet town Caernarfon. Or rather, in the B&B Tal Menai not too far away from it. If you get there by bus though, make sure you don't get off on the one that's just a stop too far, because there is no way you can walk along the road. We ended up backtracking over a cycle path.

Caernarfon has a pretty nice castle and also a bit of town wall still. It's otherwise not very interesting but they do have a non-floating floating restaurant. As it's on the Menai Strait there are some pretty sunsets however.

There are several tracks up to Snowdon, also from different starting points. Our starting point was the Pen-y-Pass parking place at 359 meters above sea-leavel. From here on we went up the Pyg track to the summit. Unfortunately, the Welsh weather was doing it's normal thing: clouds. Which means we saw nothing of the view once we got to the summit at 1085 meters high. Basically, the view was the one that you can see here on the left.

After tea and some snacks, we headed back down. And as soon as we did the clouds cleared up showing us the view that was denied us on the way upwards. We took the Miners track back to the parking place to take the bus back to Caernarfon for a very welcomed proper pub meal.

I think I would like to go back once more, to try some of the other tracks. The Crib Goch one is supposed to be a really nice ridge walk; unfortunately it wasn't marked on the rendered OpenStreetmap at that point (it is now of course).

To see all the pictures, please visit my flickr set "Snowdon".

Snowdon Hike

Derick Rethans — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:08:00 GMT

Snowdon Hike

London, UK

Tuesday, July 20th 2010, 00:08 BST

To see all the pictures, please visit my flickr set "Snowdon".

Update to alpha 2

eZ Projects — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:32:12 GMT

Hello !

I m proud to announce this new alpha version.

Adding support language to import Rss and cronjobs. So now, you could import article to your wishes languages ;)

Have fun !

Custom eZ Publish VAT handler: state- or province-based taxes

Mugo Web — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:23:20 GMT

For us, the introduction of the HST in BC means more complex cross-province tax rules. For our software service judgmentcalculator.com we previously charged all Canadians 5% GST. Now we must charge our customers a different tax rate depending on the province that they live in. Thankfully, with eZ Publish as our webshop platform, we were able to quickly implement a custom VAT (value added taxes) handler.

Subversion content!

eZ Projects — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:01:44 GMT

Just add files into svn.

eZ Conference 2010 - What's new?

YMC — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:45:12 GMT

This year's meet up of the eZ ecosystem took place in the wonderful city of Berlin. Three days full of sharing experiences, learning about the future of eZ Publish and discussing new features and implementations. The talks were held on the three different tracks of Digital Media, Web Content Management and Community. Here I would like to briefly summarise the most important announcements.

eZ Find as a content engine
eZ Find is a search plugin based on Lucene/Solr. Some use cases were shown on real-life examples and there were very interesting talks about ways of optimisation. eZ Find moves into the centre of attention as it gets more and more widespread. When asked, only a minority of the attending developers could imagine working without eZ Find on projects. This shows clearly how popular eZ Find has become. What was new in contrary to the previous year was the usage of eZ Find as a content engine, which is getting done more often. Also, the longed-for feature archiving was announced to be released in near future. Objects which do not need to be edited anymore can be archived, this means they are removed from the database and stored in the Solr-Index only. In an additional step the reversed process, retrieving archived objects, will be realised. This brings large performance improvements and shows that eZ Find can work very well as a content engine.

Better API Calls and a REST Interface
The outlook on the eZ Publish API also enjoyed great popularity. On the one hand, improvements will be made to the eZ core classes, which is the PHP API. The new API calls are more precise and require less parameters than before and look therefore a lot cleaner. On the other hand, eZ Publish will get its own REST interface. This interface will provide complete access to all available data. The possibilities this opens up and the way eZ wants to provide this interface are great and receive a huge echo from community and developers, for example @tonywood tweeted:

"

Yes yes yes yes yes we need the REST interface by default in eZ NOW!!.. It will be nice not to have to create our own on projects #ezconf

"

eZ goes Git
Prior to the eZ Conference, eZ announced to move away from Subversion and use Git for revision control. Two weeks ago eZ stealthily migrated from pubsvn to github. But why did eZ decide to switch? There are many reasons behind this. Many blogposts cover the advantages of Git versus Subversion so I won't go into that but, for example, patches from the community shall be easier to implement. A developer can now simply contribute by creating a new branch and merging it back in, which is more comfortable for everyone involved. But why Git? Git offers a offline usage, is fast and encourages to fork. eZ is now available on github.

Thomas Koch from YMC already held a talk about the advantages of eZ Publish using Git at the eZ Developer Day 2009 and made suggestions how to do this based on a survey and how we could benefit from it (see the slides: GIT for eZ). We are glad that things turned this way.

Two branches: Community and Enterprise
Also a visionary change is that eZ Publish will be available in two different editions: community and enterprise. The one available on github is the community edition and open for everyone. The enterprise edition will have a strong focus on stability whereas the community edition will be more bleeding edge although not unstable. The community edition will have contributions from the eZ ecosystem. These contributions must be approved by a steering committee which is yet to be occupied. From time to time features from the community edition will be implemented in the enterprise edition. The enterprise edition will be provided with eZ Publish Premium. The fundamental idea is Community influences Enterprise influences Community.