- The content model and editing content This guide is for editors and site builders. It shows how content is shaped in Exponential and how to work with it every day. You define a content class, create content from it, and edit it with the online editor…
- The test language Lorem Ipsum: enabling and removing it Exponential ships a language that exists only for testing: Lorem Ipsum, code qlo-ZZ. Use it to try out content translations (a second or third language, the editor's language choice, fallbacks, language filters, URL…
- Upgrading: from 4.x, 5.x or an earlier 6.0.x to today This guide is for whoever runs an existing installation and wants to bring it to the current Exponential 6.0 line. That line is 6.0.15, which follows 6.0.14; Composer installs it with the constraint ~6.0.15 (see…
- Exponential Competition This book compares Exponential with the other ways to run a website today: proprietary digital experience platforms (DXPs) and software as a service (SaaS), the PHP content management systems and frameworks, and the…
- Guides: the learning path This page is the table of contents of the guides. Read it if you are new to Exponential, or if you know the system and want the shortest way to one result.
- Cookbook Worked examples for the common tasks of building on Exponential, from an extension skeleton to a custom datatype, a cronjob and a Velocity deploy, each checked against the code of this release.
- The common migration checklist The steps every migration to, within or away from Exponential shares - inventory, freeze, content mapping, URLs and redirects, search engine metadata, rehearsals, testing, cut-over, rollback and sign-off - as checklists…
- Exponential's import and export tools Every import and export tool that really exists in Exponential 6 and the extensions it requires - xrowextract (CSV, XML, JSON, site archives, packages), ezcsvimport/ezcsvexport, packages, the ZIP importer of…
- Mapping content to Exponential How the concepts of any other system map to Exponential's content model - classes and datatypes, objects, versions and translations, locations, sections and states, users and passwords, media, taxonomy, comments and…
- An extension skeleton The smallest complete extension with its metadata (ezinfo.php, extension.xml, composer.json), its settings and the commands that switch it on and make its classes known.
- Installing Exponential 6.0 This guide installs Exponential 6.0 from nothing to a working site: what you need, how to get the code, the three ways to install (the browser setup wizard, the kickstarter, the one-command console install), how to…
- Web server examples Complete, checked configurations for serving Exponential 6 with Velocity, Apache, nginx, Caddy, FrankenPHP, LiteSpeed, IIS and PHP-FPM, each with the same routing rules as the shipped .htaccess_root.
- Configuring Exponential 6.0 This guide configures an Exponential 6.0 installation once it is installed: where settings live and which file wins, the siteaccesses and their addresses, languages, the database, mail, caches, file storage and…
- Updating Exponential 6.0 This page updates a running Exponential 6.0 installation to a newer 6.0.x release or to the current state of the 6.0 line: back up, put the new code in place, update the database, rebuild the class map and the caches…
- Integrating With Exponential 6.0 This guide connects other systems to an Exponential 6.0 installation: apps, shops, portals, search services, identity providers, log platforms, AI services and deployment pipelines. It shows which ways in and out the…
- Distributions of Exponential This guide lists every distribution of Exponential that 7x publishes under the GitHub organization se7enxweb: what each one is and who it is for, the PHP versions and databases it supports, which kernel and…
- Velocity Exponential Velocity serving a public site on ports 80 and 443 with no separate web server: the velocity.ini override, the generated /etc/vc site file, enabling sites, conf snippets and modules, a systemd unit and…
- Uninstalling Exponential 6.0 This page removes an Exponential 6.0 installation from a server, and before that it exports everything the installation holds: the database, the content in open formats, the storage files and images, the packages, the…
- Accessibility standards How Exponential measures up against WCAG 2.2 AA, WAI-ARIA 1.2, EN 301 549 and Section 508, with the templates, stylesheets and tests that prove it and the gaps that remain.
- Apache .htaccess The complete .htaccess for Apache (and LiteSpeed): the shipped .htaccess_root rule by rule, how to install and check it, and optional blocks for an HTTPS redirect, security headers and browser caching.
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