Ecosystem
The Exponential ecosystem in the PHP stack: products, extensions, distributions, partners, users and creators.
45 pages
- Ecosystem: start here The landing page for the Exponential Ecosystem - the greater Exponential world within the PHP stack, its users and creators. A map of the products, packages, organizations, people and PHP projects around Exponential…
- What the Exponential Ecosystem is The definition of the Exponential Ecosystem - all aspects of the Exponential world within the PHP stack, its users and creators - its five parts, how it differs from the community and the partner program, and what it…
- The Exponential ecosystem map How the parts of the Exponential ecosystem connect - from PHP and Composer through the kernel, Velocity and the bundled extensions to the Platform line, sites and their users - with what depends on what and where each…
- A short history of the Exponential ecosystem How the Exponential ecosystem came to be, in the past tense - the code base that began as eZ Publish and was discontinued by its creator, the community that kept it alive, 7x's stewardship from 2023, the renaming to…
- Ecosystem reading path The order in which to read the ecosystem section of the Exponential help - a core path of ten pages for everyone, and extra paths for developers, hosts, decision makers and writers.
- Ecosystem FAQ Short answers to common questions about the Exponential ecosystem - what belongs to it, the products and distributions, packages and versions, PHP and databases, the organizations, and how to take part.
- Ecosystem glossary The words of the Exponential ecosystem - from AdminUI, CMF and distribution to dual kernel, fork, legacy bridge, meta package, Nexus, Packagist, Qbix, site package and Zeta Components - each in one or two sentences with…
- Ecosystem checklists Checklists for working in the Exponential ecosystem - before describing a product or distribution, before depending on a package, before publishing a package, and before quoting a number about the ecosystem.
- The products of the Exponential ecosystem The landing page of the products part of the ecosystem section - the Exponential 6 kernel, Velocity, Layouts, Intelligence, AdminUI and the admin designs, Exponential Basic and the Symfony-based Platform line including…
- The Exponential 6 kernel in the ecosystem The Exponential 6 kernel as the center of the ecosystem - what it is, its main features as the README lists them, the 6.0 release line and its support, how it is installed with Composer, and what builds on it.
- Exponential Velocity in the ecosystem Exponential Velocity's place in the ecosystem - a web and application server written in PHP, part of Exponential since 6.0.15, its three engines, why it is faster, when a traditional server is still the right answer…
- Exponential Layouts in the ecosystem Exponential Layouts' place in the ecosystem - the visual page builder that brings the concept of the upstream layouts packages to the Exponential kernel, its packages, who it is for, how it relates to Nexus and the DXP…
- Exponential Intelligence in the ecosystem Exponential Intelligence's place in the ecosystem - a writing assistant in the administration that writes drafts only, as the signed-in editor, with hosted providers in the US or EU or a local open-weight model - its…
- AdminUI and the admin designs The administration interfaces of the Exponential ecosystem - admin4, admin4l built from layouts, AdminUI ported from Netgen Admin UI, admin3 and the classic designs - how a user switches between them, and the shared…
- Exponential Basic in the ecosystem Exponential Basic's place in the ecosystem - a simple CMS from the old 2.x line for learning, personal use and small sites, its repository and databases as described, and how it differs from Exponential 6.
- The Exponential Platform line The Symfony-based Exponential Platform line in the ecosystem - Platform 3.2.9, the dual-kernel Legacy and Nexus distributions with Exponential 6 included, the starters and skeletons, the legacy bridge, and the framework…
- Exponential Platform DXP in the ecosystem Exponential Platform DXP's place in the ecosystem - the Symfony-only Digital Experience Platform continuing the eZ Platform and Ibexa OSS line - what its meta package ships and what it does not (no layouts editor…
- Choosing a product from the ecosystem Which product of the Exponential ecosystem fits which need - Exponential 6 with SQLite, Velocity, Layouts, Intelligence, the Platform DXP, Nexus, Legacy or Exponential Basic - with the questions to ask and the page to…
- Packages of the Exponential ecosystem The landing page of the packages part of the ecosystem section - the extensions bundled with the kernel, Composer and Packagist, how packages are versioned, site packages and the package server, themes and designs…
- The extensions bundled with Exponential The se7enxweb extensions that the kernel's composer.json brings to every installation - what they cover, which are switched off until you enable them, how to see the current list, and how to add or drop one.
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