eZ Publish Tips And Tricks

We are pleased to announce that Seeds Consulting is nominated for the eZ Awards 2008 in two categories: Contribution of the year for the Swark extension and Publication of the year for the Helper Child Nodes: User-Friendly Search Results and Preventing Full Node Views article.

Loading INI caches takes time. It is not unusual to see in the time accumulators (in the debug output) that loading these caches takes 15% or more of the total run time on a well cached production site. In this article we will show you how to reduce this time to almost zero.

Even on the production servers, fatal errors do occur. And when such an error happens, visitors of your web site are confronted with a page with a boring error message and no links the visitors can use to continue browsing the site. This tip shows you how to prepare custom fatal error pages looking just as any other page on your site.

In an eZ Publish site structure, there are often nodes that hold information shown as a part of the full view of a different, master node. Showing the full view of the former nodes themselves or getting them as search results is usually unwanted. This is common in forums and articles with comments. If you have worked on a large eZ Publish project, you have probably used such nodes without referring to them by a specific name. This article explains what we call “helper nodes” and also explores the template and content model issues involved, relating specifically to search results.