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We will start by going through the various ways to find and retrieve content from eZ Publish using the API. While this will be covered in further, dedicated documentation, it is necessary to explain a few basic concepts of the Public API. In the following recipes, you will learn about the general principles of the API as they are introduced in individual recipes.

Displaying values from a Content

In this recipe, we will see how to fetch a Content instance from the repository, and obtain its Field's content. 

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It is good practice to cover each exception you expect to happen. In this case, since our Command takes the content ID as a parameter, this ID may either not exist, or the referenced content may not be visible to our user. Both cases are covered with explicit error messages.

Browsing Locations

This recipe shows how to browse a subtree starting from a given location. (Full code here)

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Viewing Content Meta Data

This recipe shows how to read content meta data: Locations, UrlAliases, Relations, Versions, Contenttype, Section, Owner, RemoteId, Several Timestamps. (Full code here)

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Locations:
  Location: /1/2/103/  URLAlias: /testrootfolder
  Location: /1/2/94/106/  URLAlias: /Partner-Section/testrootfolder
Relations:
  Relation of type EMBED to content Multivariate Testing
  Relation of type EMBED to content test
Name: testrootfolder
Type: folder
Last modified: 2012-11-12
Published: 2012-11-06
RemoteId: 32d63a1493208f6d0e2d40ab25749af4
Main Language: eng-US
Always avaialble: Yes
Owner: Administrator User
Section: Standard
Version 1: 'Administrator User' ARCHIVED eng-US
Version 2: 'Administrator User' PUBLISHED eng-US

Performing a simple full text search

In this recipe a simple full text search is performed. (Full code here)

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Performing an advanced search

In this recipe different criteria is combined using a logic 'AND' operation. The result is restricted additional (see recipe 9) to a given content type and subtree. (Full code here)

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