Integration

Integrating Exponential with other systems: the APIs, feeds, imports, exports and search.

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Cronjobs for integrations Scheduling integration work with Exponential's cronjob parts - a part of your own, the script as a class, the crontab line per siteaccess, locking against overlapping runs, pausing a part during maintenance, and… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Workflows and triggers as integration hooks Using workflow events on triggers as the "on publish" hook of an integration - before and after triggers, an outbox event that queues changes for a cronjob, an external check that accepts or rejects a publication… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Event listeners for integrations Reacting to kernel events with ezpEvent listeners - which events are useful to an integration (caches cleared, object states, notifications, sessions), attaching a listener in settings, a CDN purge example, the… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Outgoing webhooks from the audit trail Using the audit trail's signed webhook sink as an outgoing event feed - what it sends, how to route content events such as content.object.publish to it, the HMAC signature and how a receiver checks it, delivery with… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Mail and notifications integration Connecting Exponential to mail servers and mail providers - the sendmail, SMTP and file transports, a transport class of your own for a provider's HTTP API, the mail gate and preferences, notifications and their… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Forms and collected information Getting form answers, polls and lead forms out of Exponential into a CRM or another system - how information collection works, collect.ini, the CSV export and bccie, reading new collections from PHP in a cronjob, mail… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Login handlers - LDAP, textfile and your own Letting people sign in to Exponential with an account that lives in a directory or another system - how the chain of login handlers works, the LDAP handler and its group mapping, the textfile handler, writing a login… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Single sign-on and social login What Exponential offers for single sign-on - the SingleSignOnHandlerArray hook, social login as an OAuth 2.0 client in sevenx_authentication_2fa, putting a SAML or OpenID Connect proxy in front of the site - and what it… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Search engine integration How site search is wired in Exponential and how to connect an external search service - the built-in engine, the ezpSearchEngine plugin interface, Solr through ezfind and exp:solr, delayed indexing, reindexing after… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Payment gateways and the shop Integrating the shop module with payment providers and ERP systems - how payment gateways plug into the checkout workflow, registering a gateway of your own, the ezpaypal extension as a model, passing orders to an ERP… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
AI providers, the job queue and MCP What Exponential offers for connecting AI providers and background work - expai (Exponential Intelligence) with Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible services and local models, expqueue as a job queue for integrations, the… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Integration patterns: push and pull, batch and real time The basic integration patterns applied to Exponential - who starts the exchange (push or pull), how often (batch or near real time), delta and full runs, outbox and inbox, polling with a watermark, and which Exponential… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Idempotent imports keyed by remote_id Making imports safe to run any number of times - the remote_id of objects and nodes, a naming scheme for keys, the create-or-update function with change detection, handling records removed at the source, and what to do… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Mapping content classes to external data Turning records of another system into content objects - designing the class, choosing datatypes, the fromString() text formats of the common datatypes, images and files from a DAM, relations, languages, locations, and… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Writing an import script A complete, worked import for Exponential - reading a CSV export of an ERP, running as a service account, create-or-update by remote_id with change detection, a dry run, batches and memory, a safety stop, logging and a… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Writing an export or an outbound sync Getting content out of Exponential into another system - a full export of a subtree page by page, an outbox sender that delivers changes with retries, the payload, HTTP calls with timeouts, signing, and marking what was… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Migrating content from another CMS Moving the content of another content management system into Exponential as an integration project - inventory, mapping, the import approach, internal links and media, users, redirects for old addresses, rehearsals, the… DevelopersProject managersIntegrators Integration
Error handling and logging in integrations How an integration should fail, retry and leave a trace in Exponential - classes of errors, retries and dead letters, transactions, eZDebug and eZLog, the log files under var/log, error references, the log viewer and… DevelopersIntegrators Integration
Security for integrations The security rules an Exponential integration must follow - credentials never in Git, settings/override and the environment, least privilege for service accounts, transport security, input from other systems treated as… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration
Service accounts, roles and policies Giving an integration exactly the rights it needs - a service account per integration, a user group and a role of its own, the policies typical integrations need (content read, create, edit, remove, apikey/create… AdministratorsDevelopersIntegrators Integration

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