Jan had been working as an independent consultant for many years, specializing in web application development, before he joined eZ Systems in 2004 where he worked together with both the core and project team. As a part of his job he also concentrated on performance boosting on large projects implemented with eZ Publish. In 2007 he joined Seeds Consulting AS.
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09 Apr 08
This article introduced two main issues that need to be considered with helper child nodes: showing or hiding their full views, and including or excluding them in search results. The outlined solutions are functional, powerful and flexible enough to suit many sites, and can be extended or modified.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post comments below, or use this contact form to contact me directly. As stated previously, the extensions discussed in this article can be downloaded here.
I would like to thank Sergey Puschin, Balazs Halasy and Peter Keung for reading drafts of this article and giving me valuable feedback.
Version 1.0.0 beta. Compatible with: eZ Publish 3. License: GNU GPL version 2.
Children indexer allows to return parent nodes when searching for a term occurring in their (helper) child nodes. For example, by using this extension it is possible to return an article or a forum thread when searching for a term occurring in a related article comment or a forum post.
childrenindexer-1.0.0.beta.tgz
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childrenindexer-1.0.0.beta.zip
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Version 1.0.0 beta. Compatible with: eZ Publish 3. License: GNU GPL version 2.
Redirect extension implements a template operator for redirecting to a given URL.
Note that extended version of the redirect operator is included in the Swark extension.
redirect-1.0.0.beta.tgz
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redirect-1.0.0.beta.zip
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