A programmer's tale

Xajax extension enters pubsvn

January 14th, 2006

Yesterday, I’ve imported a new extension into the eZ community SVN repository. It’s called xajax and it contains an eZ publish module which integrates the xajax ajax PHP library. A template operator xajax_javascript is provided to easily insert the needed javascript in your pagelayout template. You can easily add new xajax functions (even from other extensions) with INI settings.

The extension currently contains only 1 function you can call through xajax: setPreferences, for setting multiple user preferences.

Documentation is still missing, but I first want to implement some enhancements before I start writing:

• support for static class functions
• xajax_javascript is a template operator now, but it would better be a template function
• other xajax functions included by default, like setting subtree notifications (I already wrote this but I need to remove some site-specific parts)

I would like to have some feedback on this extension, especially:

• ideas for other general functions which would be useful to call with ajax
• if it works on eZ publish setups other than port based (I didn’t test this yet)

Oh, I almost forgot to say, you can checkout your copy at http://pubsvn.ez.no/community/trunk/extension/xajax/. Have fun!

Entry Filed under: eZ Publish,xajax