CMS development
CMS development with Exponential: content classes, templates, workflows, permissions, multisite and languages.
51 pages
- Siteaccesses and multisite For CMS developers, how one installation serves several faces such as public sites, languages, the administration and an editor interface. It covers how a request picks its siteaccess, what a siteaccess decides, subtree…
- URL aliases and routing For CMS developers, how an address reaches a page. It covers the module/view system URL, URL aliases made from the tree, the transformation settings, history aliases after moves, global aliases and wildcards for…
- Templates and overrides for CMS developers For CMS developers, how a page is drawn. It covers the pagelayout and the module result, the design chain, override rules that pick a template per class, node, section or view mode, the template language in brief, where…
- View modes For CMS developers, how one piece of content is shown in many contexts. It covers the full, line, embed and other shipped view modes, how a mode is chosen, a template per class and mode, your own view modes for cards…
- Fetching content in templates For CMS developers, the fetch functions that replace hand-written queries. It covers single nodes and objects, children and subtrees, class and attribute filters, sorting, paging with the offset view parameter, counts…
- Content from PHP For CMS developers who read and write content in PHP scripts, importers and integrations with the real kernel API. It covers running a script with the kernel loaded, fetching nodes and lists, reading attributes…
- Importing content For CMS developers loading content into a site, the import tools that exist and which one fits which source. It covers xrowextract, the kernel's ezcsvimport, packages, the ZIP importer, office documents, RSS import…
- Search For CMS developers, how search works on an Exponential site. It covers the built-in engine and Solr through eZ Find, what gets indexed, delayed indexing and cron, the search page and its template, searching from…
- The REST API For CMS developers integrating apps and other systems, the REST interface that Exponential 6 ships. It covers the ezprestapi extension, the v1 and v2 routes, OAuth2 tokens and personal API keys, permissions, response…
- Headless delivery For CMS developers who deliver Exponential content to apps and front ends of other technologies. It sets out what exists, namely the REST interface, expservices, ezjscore server functions, JSON views of your own and…
- Layouts for CMS developers For CMS developers, Exponential Layouts from the developer's side. It covers layouts, zones, blocks and rules, how a page resolves its layout, how layouts meet templates in the pagelayout, layout types, block…
- Caching for CMS developers For CMS developers, every cache that can stand between a change and the page. It covers the view cache and what it is keyed by, cache blocks in the pagelayout, which publish clears what, the template, override and INI…
- Workflows and triggers For CMS developers, how to run logic when content is published, a user registers or an order is placed. It covers workflows, events and triggers, the shipped event types, approval before publishing, the workflow…
- Forms and information collection For CMS developers building contact forms, polls and lead forms without code, using information collection. It covers collector attributes, the form and result templates, the collect.ini settings for mail, display…
- The built-in shop For CMS developers, a short and factual overview of the shop in the Exponential kernel. It covers products as content with price datatypes, the basket, checkout and orders, VAT, currencies and discounts, payment through…
- Cronjobs For CMS developers, the scheduled work an Exponential site depends on. It covers parts and scripts, what the default parts do, scheduling with the crontab, running parts from the shell and the console, the Cronjobs page…
- Settings and INI for CMS developers For CMS developers, how Exponential is configured with INI files. It covers the file format, the scopes and the order in which they win, where a project's settings belong, reading and changing values safely with…
- Extensions you will write For CMS developers, the extensions a typical site project needs, seen from the project. These are a site extension with design and settings, and optionally a code extension with operators, fetch functions, modules…
- Development environment For CMS developers, a working development setup in a few commands. It covers the code as Git clones, a one-command install on SQLite, Velocity with PHP's built-in server engine, debug output and template settings, a…
- Deploying a site For CMS developers, getting a site from the repository onto staging and live and shipping changes safely. It covers choosing the web server, what a deployment carries, settings per environment, exp:velocity deploy for…
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