What a new installation comes with: the default extension distribution #

This page is for anyone who installs Exponential and wants to know which extensions arrive with it, and how to add or drop one. composer.json of Exponential does more than list PHP requirements: it decides which extensions arrive with composer create-project. From December 2023 the maintainers built that list package by package.

See the current list #

grep -n '"se7enxweb/' composer.json

The first block of the output is suggest, the second require. The current require and suggest sections of composer.json are the authority; the timeline below tells you when each piece joined. What a 6.0.15 installation has on disk, what it activates by default and where the tables come from is listed in Extensions of a new installation.

How it works #

• Every extension is a Composer package of the vendor se7enxweb. The version constraints use ~, which lets the last position float: ~6.0.8 accepts 6.0.9 and 6.0.10 but not 6.1.0.
• require is installed with the product. suggest is only a hint printed by Composer; you install a suggested package yourself with composer require se7enxweb/<name>.
• The PHP requirement is ^8.1 || ^8.2 ... (see PHP 8 support).
• In December 2023 the first release already switched the sources from third-party package names (...-ls and ...-ls-extension) to se7enxweb/<name>. In January 2024 each package was renamed so that no Composer replace trick is needed.

Add an extension #

1. Install it:

   composer require se7enxweb/ezflow
   php bin/php/ezpgenerateautoloads.php -e
   php bin/php/ezcache.php --clear-all --allow-root-user

2. Activate it in settings/override/site.ini.append.php:

   [ExtensionSettings]
   ActiveExtensions[]=ezflow

An installation made from a site package activates the extensions of its package for you.

Leave one out #

1. Remove it from ActiveExtensions and clear the caches.
2. Run composer remove se7enxweb/<name>.

If you installed with Git checkouts of the extensions instead of Composer, do not run composer update: it replaces the checkouts.

Timeline of the distribution (root composer.json) #

Some entries moved between suggest and require later: today ezoracle and git_manager are in require, while ezauthorize, ezownerchange, bcurlaliaswithdash and sevenx_valkey are still only suggestions. Since then the list grew with the layout system, the newsletter, the tags extension and others.

Related pages #

• Extensions, themes and packages, extension list: sort, inspect and download, loading order and safe saving
• Extension metadata: ezinfo.php and extension.xml
• The product is called Exponential, PHP 8 support
• Changelogs that changed the extension set: 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.9, 6.0.10
• History: December 2023, January 2024, first half, January 2024, second half, February 2024, March 2024, June 2024