Getting started
First steps in the administration: signing in, finding your way and the everyday tasks.
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- Velocity is part of Exponential 6.0.15 As of 6.0.15 the Velocity Internet and web application server is part of Exponential itself, installed with every copy and driven by one console command. Why that is a turning point, what it brings out of the box, how…
- New in 6.0.15: static publishing Exponential 6.0.15 publishes a site as a free, fast and safe static copy on GitHub Pages or any git host - built, checked and published from Setup > Static publishing, with editing kept in Exponential and every publish…
- Getting started Sign in to the administration, find the content you work on, make a first change, and know where to get help.
- A tour of the administration The header, the tabs, the side columns and the dashboard of the administration, and two walk-throughs: editing a folder step by step, and arranging a page in the layouts editor.
- Help for editors and users Where to start: the help pages for people who write, edit and publish content, and for everyone with an account.
- Why Exponential supports PHP 7.4 Supported - PHP 8.0 to 8.5; usable without support - PHP 7.4 (Exponential 6.0.15 and later). Who this is for, what works on PHP 7.4 and what needs PHP 8 (a table per feature), how one Composer metapackage picks the…
- Recent content Dashboard > Recent content - the newest content of the whole site, newest first, with what is held for review, drafts waiting for a date and who submitted what from where; filters, page sizes up to 1000 and actions on a…
- Learning Exponential: the chapters of the Learning book, brought up to date Help pages adapted from the free book Learning eZ publish, chapter by chapter, with every step, setting and label checked against Exponential 6. Start here for the reading order.
- Building a site step by step: the chess club tutorial for Exponential 6 A small community site (welcome page, news, members, moderated guestbook, links) built one page at a time, adapted from the Building a Site tutorial and done with Exponential 6 settings, extensions and templates.
- Installing, then and now: the files, the database, the virtual host What the Learning book's first chapter had you do by hand (unpack, create a database, write a virtual host, set up images and cron, read the ini files), and what each step is in Exponential 6.
- Start the project: the case, a siteaccess and a design The chess club case of the Building a Site tutorial, and the setup it begins with (a siteaccess, a design, a settings extension and a design extension), done the Exponential 6 way instead of renaming the Plain site's…
- The main layout: pagelayout.tpl and a style sheet Building the page frame of the club site step by step: a bare pagelayout, loading a style sheet through the design settings, then the header, the menu, the content area and the footer.
- The setup wizard, then and now The twelve pages of the Learning book's setup wizard, matched to the pages of the Exponential 6 wizard, with what changed (database choices, site packages, siteaccess methods) and the commands that skip the wizard.
- Installation problems, then and now The two problems the Learning book's first chapter troubleshoots (PHP memory limit, PHP as CGI) and how they look in Exponential 6, with where to look first.
- Sections and the welcome page Creating the first folders and sections of the club site, writing the welcome article, making it the front page with IndexPage, and giving it a template of its own with an override rule.
- The news pages: overview, full article and archive Building the first dynamic pages: a News folder with articles, the overview of the latest seven, the full view of one article, and an archive list with paging, using fetch, overrides and the navigator.
- The members page: a custom content class, a list and an info page Creating the Member class, adding members, a list view for the Members folder and a full view for one member, plus the privacy question the 2003 tutorial did not ask.
- The guestbook: visitors write content A guestbook as a class and a folder: the entry class, the display template, the button and form that let visitors add an entry, the policy that allows it, and the spam question to settle first.
- Approving guestbook entries with a workflow Stopping spam and offensive text in the guestbook: an Approve workflow limited to the Guestbook section, connected to the publish trigger, the approver's inbox, and the cronjob that carries the approval out.
- The links page: categories, link objects and a tree menu A links section made of category folders and Link objects, shown as an expandable tree, and the same content in two places with a second location.
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