Monday 14 July 2003 1:15:49 am

Hi Mark,

PHP is not supported in the templates (separation of code and layout). If you need some small specific PHP in the templates, you can write a template operator that does what you want. See docs -> developer -> extensions on how to write a template operator.

Karsten

Monday 14 July 2003 3:17:50 am

I was just thinking... I can't be the first to come up with this idea, so I figured someone has already written this, right?
I mean, many people want to be able to use php coding in their templates (or at least be able to include php code / .php files; which of course gets parsed).

ezPublish 3 is huge, it's extremely powerful, the possibilities are limitless (so it seems, sometimes), but it's not possible to use php or include .php files in templates by default??

Monday 14 July 2003 3:55:27 am

Mark, we don't support PHP in templates since we feel that would make it very tempting for people to use it. And we feel that it does not belong in the template language. That beeing said it's fairly quick to add this in a template operator. You could also make a template function which would execute PHP code directly in the template.

I would not recommend the latter though.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Monday 14 July 2003 7:16:26 am

Mark, I thoroughly understand your point of view. Many of us with a moderate understanding of PHP who love the capabilities of eZ publish really wish we could just insert our PHP in the templates and be on our way. It would make life much easier and shorten the learning curve significantly. But then we would be missing a large reason for choosing eZ publish: separation of code and content. Ultimately if we have some code we feel is important enough to be used in our templates, then we should create a template operator to use. This will give us the power to re-use this code and keep it on the same level as the other available operators.

In addition to the re-usability and separation of code/content, creating operators provides an easy way to package our work and contribute it back to the community. I know I use a lot of community-contributed code in other software; I expect I will use some here as well. Hopefully I will be able to contribute an operator I've been working on (with the help of Paul Forsyth). It's small, but in many ways it is a payment for using this "free" product. :)

Suffice to say, while there is a steep learning curve at first, I think we would all do well to climb it and build our sites the right way.

Alex

Alex
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Monday 14 July 2003 1:50:43 pm

Woohoo! That would make life much easier.

Alex
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Tuesday 15 July 2003 2:28:19 am

Hi Mark,

could you add that to the documentation under Tips & Tricks? Thanks a lot!

Karsten

Tuesday 15 July 2003 2:41:10 am

You can just add a new page here:
http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/tips_tricks

Karsten