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…
- 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…
- 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 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.
- What is content management? What a content management system does (collect, manage, publish), what that means in Exponential, and the design step that comes before any click: planning the structure.
- The node tree and sections Content objects versus the nodes that place them in the tree, how a branch inherits its section, and what sections are used for (permissions and presentation).
- Classes, attributes and objects How a content class defines a kind of content through its attributes, how objects are created from it, and how versions, translations and the version limit work.
- Content and presentation Why content, logic and presentation are kept apart, and the two places a page is made: the page layout and the content view.
- Roles and policies, step by step How the role system decides who may do what: a role is a set of policies (module, function, limitation), assigned to users and groups, with the functions of the content module and what changed since the book.
- Creating a content class The steps and the choices in creating a class: groups, name, identifier, the object name pattern, attributes, and what happens to existing objects when you change it.
- The datatypes tour The datatypes of the Learning book, one by one, with what each stores, what to watch for, and what changed: dates, the deprecated enum, images, the keyword and matrix types, relations.
- Rich text tags The XML tags of the rich text datatype (headings, lists, emphasis, literal, links, anchors, tables, embedded objects, custom tags), the class parameter, and how the online editor and templates relate to them.
- Workflows and triggers What a workflow, an event, a trigger and the multiplexer are, which event types ship today, and where to build a first approval workflow.
- Planning an example site: the club portal The book's worked planning example, a portal for a nature photography and astronomy club, turned into a recipe for planning any site: requirements, classes, the tree, with the classes written out as attribute lists.
- Template principles: page layout, content views, attributes How a page is assembled from templates, from pagelayout.tpl down to a single attribute; view modes, your own view, a print layout, and where styles and images go.
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