Cool, you want the award this year or not ?

So simple. It can easily understandable even for a newbie.

I appreciate your time and work for this great article.

I have a suggestion ,it would have been a better idea if you could include some cutom fetch example that make some sense

in the php method ,

<span>public</span> <a href="http://www.php.net/static" mce_href="http://www.php.net/static" target="ez_no_documentation"><span>static</span></a> <span>function</span> getMyFetchFunctionResult<span></span>

Romeo Antony

Oman , GCC

Modified on Wednesday 15 September 2010 10:23:41 pm by Romeo Antony

Hi Romeo

I don't really get your suggestion :/...

Could you be more explicit please ?

Modified on Wednesday 15 September 2010 9:11:51 pm by Jérôme Vieilledent

Thank you for the followup Jerome.

In function , you did like this

$result = array(
'first_key' => 'foo',
'second_key' => 'bar'
)

I know ,It is for simplicity. instead of that, if you show some meaningful custom fetch function operations with parameters could be really helpful .Since this article is fully focusing on extending custom fetch function .

Anyway I really enjoyed this article. This week beginning I have just started on try to develop simple extensions. This article is an additional help for my tries.

Modified on Wednesday 15 September 2010 10:22:47 pm by Romeo Antony

Nice tutorial, very good work!

I think this is one of my favorite functionallity with eZ Publish. Have made many custom fetches to make things easy!

Nice article, however I don't see the need to have an catch all try block on the "How it works" page. 1. No fetch functions use exceptions, they use null/false normally to indicate issues. 2. pokemon exceptions handling ( "Gotta Catch 'Em All" ) ?

As in: basically only use try block if the api your using uses exceptions, and then stricten the match for those exceptions instead of unintentionally catching exceptions your not supposed to handle(that might show up in the future, lets say for mvc exceptions for instance).

Modified on Monday 20 September 2010 12:50:40 pm by André R

Hi everyone

Thanks for your nice feedback

André : Actually, I always use try/catch blocks as I always use exceptions in case of errors. This is just a (nice) habit

Hi Jérôme,

Clear and neat tutorial ... perfect work.

Joël

Hi,

I'm trying to do a fetch extension in  Comunauty release 2012.2.

I thing i make a lot of mistakes because it doesn't work. My extension is active but when i trace

ExtensionRepositories of module.ini there is not my repository.

Is now organisation between files different ? files path too ?

I will complete my question.

When i trace what eZ is doing i saw that it's looking in folders but not mine :

Path :kernel/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :kernel/private/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezjscore/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezodf/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezscriptmonitor/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezmultiupload/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezoe/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezie/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezcomments/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/ezfind/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

Path :extension/eztags/modules/depeches/function_definition.php

(Message are stranges because i made a "hack" in ezmodule.php to trace what it did )

And at the end :

No file Missing function definition file for module: depeches

My file tree is :

ezidlfetch

        classes

               depechesfunctioncollection.php

        modules

               depeches

                     function_definition.php

                     module.php

        settings

               design.ini.append.php

               module.ini.append.php

               site.ini.append.php

In each files i wrote same things of your examples.

I precise that when i do a ./bin/php/ezpgenerateautoloads.php -e -v

I have : 'depechesFunctionCollection'          => 'extension/ezidlfetch/classes/depechesfunctioncollection.php',

Hi Grégory

What do you have in your module.ini.append.php ?

Thank you for your reply.

In fact i had no \r and \n in my module.ini.append.php.
It was THE big problem of my problem. I play with eZINI classe make a lot of trace and i understand that it will be a character mistake.

Eclipse is not a good friend for this kind of stuff, but vi save me.

So now it works, i will try to do my fetch function to connect with external DB.

I think it will be good to precise in documentation that \n et \r are used to do parsing in eZINI. They talk about white space but no focus about \n \r.

Last question, why there is no use of trim() in parseFile() methos of eZINI ? performance ? trim is evil ?

Quote from MONOT Gregory :

Last question, why there is no use of trim() in parseFile() methos of eZINI ? performance ? trim is evil ?

I don't really know honestly...

hi..

actually iam new to ezpublish.... please help me ..actually i want to include some rotating images in my home page ....can u please guide me...

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