Features

What each feature does and how to set it up.

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sevenx-recipes: Symfony Flex recipes for the platform packages This page is for developers who start or maintain a project on the Symfony based Exponential platform. sevenx-recipes is the Symfony Flex recipe repository of the se7enxweb platform packages. When composer require… Developers Features
sevenx_authentication_2fa: two-factor and social login This page is for administrators who want stronger sign-in, and for site builders who offer "sign in with Google" and similar. sevenx_authentication_2fa adds two-factor authentication and OAuth social login to… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
sevenx_themes_simple: the simple theme This page is for site builders who use or adapt the default public design of Exponential. sevenx_themes_simple is the light, responsive design that ships with the default installation. It has: Developers Features
Siteaccess by host prefix, and the redirect to the language Read this page if your site answers under several host names (live, test, local) or has its languages under their own path (/ger, /eng), and the start page example.com/ should lead visitors to the right language. Two… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Site bundles, metadata and the Twig tools of the platform This page is for developers who build or extend a Nexus site on Exponential Platform. These packages are the building blocks Nexus sites are made from. You normally do not install them by hand; the Nexus distribution… Developers Features
Smarty templates (.stpl) next to .tpl This page is for site builders and template developers who know Smarty, or who want to port a design to it. A design can now hold Smarty 5 templates (.stpl) next to the usual Exponential templates (.tpl). A .stpl is… Developers Features
SOAP calls over HTTPS: certificates of an internal CA Read this page if your code calls a SOAP service over HTTPS with eZSOAPClient, and the service has a certificate that the system's CA bundle does not know, for example one an internal CA of the company issued. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
SQLite database support This page is for anyone who wants to try Exponential, develop on a laptop, run automated tests, or host a small site on a plan that offers no MySQL. With SQLite, a complete Exponential site runs from one file on disk… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
SQLite for Exponential Platform: no database server needed This page is for developers who want an Exponential Platform (the Symfony based platform) running in minutes, without a database server. It is not about the legacy kernel's own SQLite driver: for that, see SQLite… Developers Features
Static publishing This page is for administrators and developers who want a public copy of an Exponential site that any static host can serve: GitHub Pages, any other git host's pages, or a plain web server with no PHP at all. Static… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
swark: template operators and workflow events that are missing This page is for template authors and site builders. swark adds many template operators and two workflow events that are needed often but are missing in the kernel. It comes from Seeds Consulting AS (2008) and Brookins… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Switching designs on a front siteaccess A public siteaccess can offer its visitors more than one design and let them switch between them with one click, for example a classic design and a modern one of the same content. Every visitor can switch: no account… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Template editor: create, order and edit overrides without touching INI files This page is for designers and site builders who change how a class, a node or a section looks. A template override says "for this class, this node or this section, use this template instead of the default". Exponential… Developers Features
Template path comments: see which template wrote which markup This page is for template developers who need to find the .tpl file behind a piece of HTML. With template path comments switched on, every rendered template is wrapped in two HTML comments that name it, the same help… Developers Features
The content checks: unreferenced objects, broken relations and missing files Read this page if you tidy up a content tree (images and files nobody uses any more) or look for published pages that link to or embed something a visitor cannot reach; and if you decide who may do that. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The Exp Debug bar This page is for developers and administrators who debug a page: slow, wrong, or full of warnings. The classic debug report at the bottom of a page became a pinned bar with tabs, a live summary, and controls for the… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The Exponential Platform administration interface This page is for developers and administrators of Exponential Platform v5 (the Symfony based platform) and its older 2.x and 3.x lines. It describes the administration interface editors use at /adminui/: content tree… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopers Features
The GraphQL API: ask the content for exactly the fields a page needs This page is for developers who build a front end, an app, a static site generator or an integration on the content of an Exponential installation, and for administrators who switch the API on and decide what it shows… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The grouped country list Every country select of Exponential shows the countries in two groups: AdministratorsDevelopers Features
The help system: the documentation inside the administration Read this page if you look for help while working in the administration, if you decide who may read the help, or if you write documentation (in doc/ or in an extension) that should show up in it. AdministratorsDevelopers Features

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