Exponential Platform DXP in the ecosystem #

"Exponential Platform DXP is a free, open-source Digital Experience Platform built on the Symfony framework, the community continuation of the eZ Platform and Ibexa OSS line maintained by 7x" (README.md).

Contents #

1. What it ships
2. What it does not ship
3. What it adds
4. Who it is for
5. How to start

What it ships #

Read from the requirements of the meta package se7enxweb/exponential-platform-dxp: "the admin UI, content forms, REST, GraphQL and the GraphiQL console, HTTP cache, core and Solr search, the rich text, matrix and query field types, notifications, messenger, cron, the standard design, Twig components, JWT authentication and se7enxweb/layouts-core" (Exponential Platform DXP). The meta package describes itself as "Stable; Open Source", with the license "GPL-2.0-or-later or proprietary".

What it does not ship #

From the same source: "a layouts editor (no layouts UI or standard blocks), an approval workflow, a scheduler, or the legacy kernel. For Exponential 6 beside Symfony, choose Legacy or Nexus." Do not describe the DXP with features of the other distributions.

What it adds #

What the README says it adds over Ibexa DXP OSS:

• "The SQLite database driver and framework support";
• current PHP ("PHP 8.3 and later");
• "A path from Exponential 6" through the dual-kernel distributions;
• "A name of its own".

Who it is for #

"Organizations with a lot of structured content", "Teams leaving eZ Platform or Ibexa OSS", Exponential users "who want a modern Symfony stack", and "Developers and agencies who prefer standard Symfony bundles, Composer and Twig" (README.md, "Who it is for").

How to start #

• DXP skeleton: composer create-project and a documented install path.
• SQLite for the platform.
• Downloads: https://platform.exponential.earth.

Related pages #

• Products
• The Platform line
• Choosing a product
• Check a distribution before describing it
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.