Tuesday 08 July 2003 12:56:24 am

Alex,

There are many ways to use ez 3 to include your own php.

Modules allow the grouping of functions, operators and scripts under one area, ie content, shops, users and so on. Within modules you have your functions which retreive information using the fetch command, and operators allow an abitrary block of php code to be run.

If you have a lot of similar functionality to implement a module should be written. http://ez.no/sdk/ezutils/view/module_handling/ gives some explanation about to start one off.

For your browser code it seems an operator is maybe the best way to proceed. For example you could call your operator by using {$browser_id} in your template.

Look in the contributed code section at operators like:

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/contributions/ezipcountry_operator
http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/contributions/glossary_operator

and see how they add operators to ez.

With this operator you could run your browser code, prepare the html, and return the output.

Start with this and then see if you need more.

Paul

Tuesday 08 July 2003 8:45:02 am

Okay, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm stumped. While I am relatively experienced with PHP I'm still learning the OOP side of it, which in combination with the eZp learning curve is proving quite daunting. I have been studying the operators and looking through the documentation, but I just don't see how to take my existing code (which is object-oriented) and include it as an operator within a template.

I think I may be missing something basic as my experiments run into problems; usually displaying a variant of " Unknown template variable 'eZSniff' in namespace '' ".

If you don't mind could you write up a short list of the exact steps to create an operator starting from a blank file in the extensions directory and including the modifications to the site.ini and the template file? Perhaps a simple "hello world" PHP script that echoes"hello world" which is then included in the template. This would be immensely helpful.

I'm sure this is simple as the template itself doesn't require any logic, it just needs to call the PHP which does the browser detection and spits out the appropriate HTML.

If this is confusing, I apologize, but I'm rather confused myself. ;) Hopefully I will reach a deeper understanding soon so I can help answer questions like these.

Thanks!

Alex

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Tuesday 08 July 2003 9:29:37 am

just had a thought, the ezipcountry operator might not be that easy to install...

paul

Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:08:37 am

Last time i tried the rad tool it gave me the wrong code which i had to fix before it would work as intended. Haven't tried it since.

paul

Wednesday 12 May 2004 10:55:56 am

Sadly, I do not know of a good tutorial on this subject.

Alex

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Thursday 13 May 2004 6:34:09 am

That's good to hear Paul! FYI, for those in the U.S., Amazon.com isn't carrying the book yet (sigh), but Barnes and Noble do list it: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=1904811019 and it should be available come May 28. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

Alex

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