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Saturday November 07 2026
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ezie: the image editor Updated Markdown page
This page is for editors who adjust images while editing content, and for administrators who add watermarks. ezie ("eZ Image Editor") is an image editor inside the edit form of any content object that has an image…
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Glossary Updated Markdown page
Every term the documentation uses, in one line, with a link to the page that teaches it. Terms are in alphabetical order. A term in bold inside a definition has its own entry. For a first walk through the product, use…
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Our goals: why Exponential exists and why we invite you to join Updated Markdown page
Why 7x and the developers of Exponential keep this code alive and current, what "the problems are already answered" means in features a site gets without extra work, what the freedoms of the GPL give you and others, how…
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REST API v1 and v2: one extension Updated Markdown page
This guide explains how Exponential 6.0.15 serves its REST content API: version 1 and version 2 come from one extension, ezprestapi (1.2.6 or later). It shows which URL answers at which version, how a client…
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Upgrading with the console: exp:upgrade Updated Markdown page
This guide teaches ./console exp:upgrade: the one command that brings the database and the settings of an Exponential 6.0 installation up to the code it runs, shows first what it would change, makes a backup, applies…
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Bundler FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short answers to the questions bundlers ask most - may we sell it, must we publish our code, which version and database, how to avoid default passwords, Docker files, offline installs, updates, branding, support and the…
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Contributing code as a community member Updated Markdown page
The workflow for a code contribution to the Exponential kernel from a community member's point of view - fork, branch, coding standards and naming prefixes, prefixed commit messages, the file manifest, tests, the CLA…
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Copyright and copyleft: who owns Exponential and what the GPL lets you do Updated Markdown page
Exponential's one copyright notice, "Exponential Copyright © 1998-2026 Exponential Foundation and 7x", and its file header form; the historical shift of 2026-10-29 from 7x alone to the Exponential Foundation and 7x…
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Ecosystem FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short answers to common questions about the Exponential ecosystem - what belongs to it, the products and distributions, packages and versions, PHP and databases, the organizations, and how to take part.
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Ecosystem glossary Updated Markdown page
The words of the Exponential ecosystem - from AdminUI, CMF and distribution to dual kernel, fork, legacy bridge, meta package, Nexus, Packagist, Qbix, site package and Zeta Components - each in one or two sentences with…
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The Exponential ecosystem map Updated Markdown page
How the parts of the Exponential ecosystem connect - from PHP and Composer through the kernel, Velocity and the bundled extensions to the Platform line, sites and their users - with what depends on what and where each…
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Ecosystem: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for the Exponential Ecosystem - the greater Exponential world within the PHP stack, its users and creators. A map of the products, packages, organizations, people and PHP projects around Exponential…
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Composer and Packagist in the ecosystem Updated Markdown page
How Composer and Packagist carry the Exponential ecosystem - installing the kernel and extensions, the se7enxweb vendor, Git clones as an alternative, the Packagist webhook that keeps versions current, and Updates and…
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The PHP stack of the Exponential ecosystem Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the PHP stack part of the ecosystem section - PHP versions, databases, web servers and engines, operating systems, the upstream projects Exponential uses and gives back to, and the standards and…
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Upstream projects and forks Updated Markdown page
The PHP projects the Exponential ecosystem stands on and gives back to - PHP, Composer, Zeta Components, Symfony, Twig, Doctrine, Netgen's projects, the Qbix web server, AdminNeo and the front-end libraries - what each…
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What the Exponential Ecosystem is Updated Markdown page
The definition of the Exponential Ecosystem - all aspects of the Exponential world within the PHP stack, its users and creators - its five parts, how it differs from the community and the partner program, and what it…
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Reading the code you already have Updated Markdown page
A map of an installation and four reading techniques: grep for a name, follow an address to its view, a page to its template, and ask Git why a line is there.
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Licenses and how they combine Updated Markdown page
How the licenses you meet in extensions combine when you put code together - GPL 2 or later, GPL 2 only, GPL 3, LGPL, MIT, BSD, Apache 2.0 - which mixes are allowed, which are not, and how to record them.
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Composer and Git on servers Updated Markdown page
How Exponential's code arrives on a server with Composer and Git, why extensions are Composer packages, which install way fits which plan, what a host must provide for Composer, and what never to run casually on a live…
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Requirements at a glance Updated Markdown page
Every requirement of Exponential 6.0.x on one page, with the minimum, the recommendation and what checks it: PHP, extensions, php.ini, databases in the official order, Composer, web server, image conversion, writable…