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eZ Publish performance with PHP 5.3.0

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:29:18 PDT

The PHP Development team has recently released PHP 5.3.0. Early reports indicate there is a performance boost simply from upgrading from a previous version.

From community feedback it appears that eZ Publish using Windows is about 30% quicker with PHP 5.3.0. I decided to validate these reports and confirm the performance of eZ Publish using PHP 5.3.0 with a linux environment.

A short summary of the tests performed can be found below.

eZ Publish Backwards Compatibility and where to find information

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:22:57 PDT

Inside eZ Publish 4.1.0 there is a new documentation directory listing all backwards compatibility (BC) changes for this release. This directory is located under 'doc/bc' folder within the eZ Publish root. Here you can find important information about BC changes which help with the upgrade process from previous eZ Publish versions, as well with your extensions.

Make your extension compatible with eZ Publish 4.1

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:19:12 PDT

Introduced in eZ Publish 4.1 is a performance enhancement (http://issues.ez.no/14273) which loads modules more intelligently.

All available modules must now be registered through module.ini and [ModuleSettings].ModuleList array.

If your extension uses custom modules and you receive an an error similar to this:

Download the eZ Multiupload extension alpha release

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:57:02 PST

The alpha version of the eZ Multiupload extension has been released and is ready to be downloaded and tested. The eZ Multiupload extension enables users to upload multiple files - such as images, documents, and binary files - at once, via the front-end of an eZ Publish website.

Custom attributes and the color picker in the Online Editor 5.0

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:02:30 PST

One of the many new features in the upcoming Online Editor 5.0 is the support for GUI interaction for the selection of custom attributes. Together with custom tags, this provides many possibilities. Consider the following example, where we want to have a few words or sentences within a paragraph to be a different color or style.

Enhanced content edit handler for validation rules in eZ Publish 4.1

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:41:37 PDT

One of the new features in the upcoming eZ Publish 4.1 release is an enhanced content edit handler, which enables you to implement custom validation rules. Based on Kristof Coomans' "Object validation" extension, eZ Publish 4.1 will include the possibility to insert custom validation methods in the content object storing process.

eZ Flow Upcoming New Features

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:45:17 PDT

eZ Flow was first introduced last December together with eZ Publish 4. Since that time, there has been a lot of development activity at eZ, but our announcements have focused on eZ Publish. Here is a look at some of the new features planned for the next version of eZ Flow.

You will be able to test some of the features listed below with the first eZ Publish 4.1alpha release. The details of additional features not mentioned here will be announced when the eZ Flow roadmap and release dates are set.

eZ Flow custom blocks: slides from eZ Publish Community Developer Day

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:22:11 PDT

During eZ Publish Community Developer Day, which was held in Skien on June 18th 2008, my great colleague Nicolas Pastorino from the eZ Systems French office gave a presentation on creating eZ Flow custom blocks. For those unfamiliar with eZ Flow, blocks hold content on dynamic frontpages, enabling you to manage layouts similar to many news sites. (Of course, such layouts are not just limited to news sites.)

Xdebug and APC on openSUSE

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:33:49 PDT

I'm running openSUSE on my developer machine. Unfortunately, the default openSUSE installation does not include the Xdebug PHP extension (for debugging of course), nor APC (for caching PHP opcode). However, this can easily be remedied.

eZ Publish: switching from primary language to another.

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:19:37 PDT

This is just reminder for me which SQL queries execute on eZ Publish database when switching for example from eng-GB to nor-NO language.