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- ORM and active record: eZPersistentObject (Updated, Markdown page)
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The Exponential answer to Eloquent, Doctrine, the Django ORM and ActiveRecord for your own tables - eZPersistentObject with a definition() array, fetchObject, fetchObjectList, count, store and remove, function… - Packages: extensions, Composer and bundles (Updated, Markdown page)
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The extension is Exponential's unit of code, like a Symfony bundle, a Laravel package, a Django app or a Rails engine - its directory layout, metadata, activation globally or per siteaccess, loading order, installing it… - Ten pitfalls for framework developers (Updated, Markdown page)
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The ten mistakes developers from Symfony, Laravel, Django, Rails and similar frameworks make most often in their first Exponential project, each with the symptom, the cause and the fix - from unescaped template output… - Queries: content fetches, eZDB and SQL (Updated, Markdown page)
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How to query data in Exponential when you are used to a query builder - content fetches with class, attribute and depth filters for content, condition arrays for persistent objects, eZDB arrayQuery and escaping for your… - Queues and background jobs (Updated, Markdown page)
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Background work in Exponential for developers used to Symfony Messenger, Laravel queues, Celery, Sidekiq or Spring's @Async - the expqueue job queue with handlers, retries, idempotency keys and workers, content jobs for… - Responses, redirects, errors and JSON (Updated, Markdown page)
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How a module view answers - the $Result array instead of a Response object, the pagelayout around it, redirects with redirectTo and safe redirect targets, error pages with handleError and eZError codes, JSON and other… - REST and JSON APIs (Updated, Markdown page)
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The API layers of Exponential for developers who build APIs with API Platform, Laravel API resources, Django REST framework or Spring controllers - the REST content API at v1 and v2 with API keys and OAuth2, your own… - Routing: modules, views and parameters (Updated, Markdown page)
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How Exponential maps an address to code - the module/view convention instead of a route table, ordered and unordered parameters, registering a module, generating URLs with ezurl and eZURI::build, HTTP methods and… - Scheduled tasks: cronjobs (Updated, Markdown page)
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The Exponential counterpart of Laravel's scheduler, Symfony Scheduler, Celery beat, whenever and Spring's @Scheduled - cronjob parts in cronjob.ini run by runcronjobs.php from the system crontab, the shipped parts the… - Servers and deployment: Apache and PHP-FPM, Velocity, FrankenPHP (Updated, Markdown page)
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How Exponential is served and deployed, for developers who know PHP-FPM behind nginx, Laravel Octane, RoadRunner, FrankenPHP worker mode, Gunicorn or Puma - the three ways to serve it, the persistent-worker rules, the… - Siteaccesses: matching a request to a site (Updated, Markdown page)
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The siteaccess is the concept framework developers most often miss - a named configuration selected per request by URI, host, port or server variable, before routing - how matching works, what a siteaccess changes, how… - Static publishing compared with static site generators (Updated, Markdown page)
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An honest comparison of Exponential's static publishing with Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, Astro and headless setups - where a CMS that publishes static copies wins, and where a generator is the better tool. - The Symfony legacy bridge for framework developers (Updated, Markdown page)
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How Exponential 6 and Symfony run as one application - the legacy bridge bundle that loads the Exponential 6 kernel inside a Symfony platform installation, what each side handles, the legacy_admin siteaccess, the… - Template resolution: designs and overrides (Updated, Markdown page)
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How Exponential decides which template file renders a view - the design chain of a siteaccess, extension designs, the design: resource, override.ini rules matched by class, node, section or view mode - compared with… - The view layer: the template language beside Twig and Blade (Updated, Markdown page)
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The Exponential template language for developers who know Twig, Blade, Jinja or ERB - syntax side by side, operators instead of infix symbols, no automatic escaping, fetch in the template, the pagelayout instead of… - Testing: PHPUnit, database tests and checks (Updated, Markdown page)
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How to test an application on Exponential for developers used to WebTestCase, Laravel's HTTP tests, Django's test client or Rails system tests - PHPUnit without a database for services, tests against a throwaway… - The content model for ORM users (Updated, Markdown page)
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Content classes, objects, versions, translations, nodes, datatypes, sections and object states explained in the terms of an ORM - what each is in the database and in PHP, how a typical blog or catalog maps onto it, and… - The Exponential Platform products (Updated, Markdown page)
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The Symfony-based side of the Exponential family, for framework developers choosing a stack - Exponential Platform 3.2.9, Legacy, Nexus, DXP and the Nexus starter, which ones include the Exponential 6 kernel, which ship… - The request lifecycle (Updated, Markdown page)
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What happens to an HTTP request in Exponential, step by step - index.php, the kernel, siteaccess matching, settings, session, URL alias and wildcard translation, request rules, the module and policy checks, the view… - Pretty URLs: URL aliases and URL wildcards (Updated, Markdown page)
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How Exponential turns readable addresses into module addresses - automatic URL aliases for content nodes, global aliases for module views, wildcard patterns for redirects and rewrites, history redirects when content…
