Web frameworks
Exponential with web frameworks: Composer, the APIs, embedding content and running them side by side.
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- Extension points: handlers, INI registration and overrides Where framework developers register services, tags, listeners and plugins, Exponential registers extension points in INI settings, directories and designs - the nine registration mechanisms, a map of the most used…
- Middleware: request rules, input and output listeners What takes the place of middleware, before and after filters and request listeners in Exponential - request rules that allow, deny, redirect, rewrite or log after URL translation and policies, the request/input and…
- Events and listeners: ezpEvent The in-process event bus of Exponential compared with Symfony's EventDispatcher, Laravel events, Django signals and Spring application events - notify and filter events, registering listeners in site.ini, the events the…
- Workflows and triggers: hooks on content operations Where a framework developer writes model observers, post-save signals, state machines or process managers, Exponential offers workflows - event types run before or after operations such as publish and checkout, attached…
- Authentication and sessions How Exponential knows who is asking, for developers used to Symfony security firewalls, Laravel guards, Django auth and Devise - users as content objects, the anonymous user, login handlers, sessions and their handlers…
- Authorization: roles, policies and limitations The Exponential permission system for developers used to voters, gates, policies, Django permissions or CanCan abilities - roles made of policies, module functions and limitations, assignments to users and groups…
- Forms and CSRF protection How forms work in Exponential for developers used to form components, form requests and CSRF middleware - templates that write the form, module actions that read it, eZHTTPTool for input, ezformtoken's automatic token…
- Validation: input, datatypes and escaping Where validation happens in Exponential when there is no validator component - content is validated by its datatypes when editors save, your own forms and parameters are validated in your view or service, and output is…
- Caching: the layers and how to invalidate them The caches of Exponential for developers used to a cache component with pools and tags - compiled templates, INI and override caches, the content view cache per role, template cache blocks, data caches through the…
- HTTP caching and reverse proxies HTTP-level caching in Exponential for developers who know Symfony's HttpCache, Varnish setups, Laravel response caching or Django's cache middleware - page headers for anonymous visitors from settings, the role-aware…
- Translations, locales and right-to-left Internationalization in Exponential for developers used to Symfony Translation, Laravel's lang files, gettext in Django and Rails I18n - interface strings in Qt Linguist .ts catalogues, the i18n operator and…
- Command line: the console and eZScript The Exponential counterpart of bin/console, artisan, manage.py, rails commands and Spring Boot runners - bin/php/console with its exp:, ext:, shell: and cron: namespaces, writing a command as an…
- Queues and background jobs Background work in Exponential for developers used to Symfony Messenger, Laravel queues, Celery, Sidekiq or Spring's @Async - the expqueue job queue with handlers, retries, idempotency keys and workers, content jobs for…
- Scheduled tasks: cronjobs The Exponential counterpart of Laravel's scheduler, Symfony Scheduler, Celery beat, whenever and Spring's @Scheduled - cronjob parts in cronjob.ini run by runcronjobs.php from the system crontab, the shipped parts the…
- REST and JSON APIs The API layers of Exponential for developers who build APIs with API Platform, Laravel API resources, Django REST framework or Spring controllers - the REST content API at v1 and v2 with API keys and OAuth2, your own…
- Headless and decoupled front ends Using Exponential as the content back end of a front end written in another framework - Next.js, Nuxt, a Laravel or Django site, a mobile app - what stays in Exponential, which API to read, rich text and images…
- Testing: PHPUnit, database tests and checks How to test an application on Exponential for developers used to WebTestCase, Laravel's HTTP tests, Django's test client or Rails system tests - PHPUnit without a database for services, tests against a throwaway…
- Debugging, logging and errors The Exponential counterparts of the Symfony profiler, Laravel Telescope and Debugbar, Django Debug Toolbar and framework loggers - debug output and the Exp debug bar, template path comments, eZDebug and eZLog, the log…
- Servers and deployment: Apache and PHP-FPM, Velocity, FrankenPHP How Exponential is served and deployed, for developers who know PHP-FPM behind nginx, Laravel Octane, RoadRunner, FrankenPHP worker mode, Gunicorn or Puma - the three ways to serve it, the persistent-worker rules, the…
- Packages: extensions, Composer and bundles The extension is Exponential's unit of code, like a Symfony bundle, a Laravel package, a Django app or a Rails engine - its directory layout, metadata, activation globally or per siteaccess, loading order, installing it…
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