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Saturday November 07 2026

  • Array and object inspection (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:38 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    While you write a template you often need to know what a variable holds: which attributes a node has, which keys an array has, what an attribute's content is. Two operators print it: attribute and dump. Use them during d…
  • Discussion: Re: Custom Triggers? (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • Discussion: Custom Triggers? (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • Smart view cache cleaning (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Publishing an object clears the view cache of its locations, their parents, objects with the same keywords and related objects (see Clearing the view cache ). That is not always enough: a folder that lists the newest art…
  • Discussion: Re: PDF Doc (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • Discussion: PDF Doc (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • URL map examples (Updated, Markdown page)
    Markdown documentation (help center) · Examples · Changed 05:35 am
    Small, realistic URL map files in CSV, JSON, Apache and nginx format, with query-string redirects, temporary redirects and wildcards, each checked with exp:url:import --dry-run.
  • Importing and exporting URL maps (Updated, Markdown page)
    Markdown documentation (help center) · Features · Changed 05:35 am
    When a site moves to Exponential, or gets a new structure, its old addresses have to keep working: links on other sites, bookmarks and search engine results point at them. Exponential 6.0.15 takes those addresses in as…
  • Migrating URLs (Updated, Markdown page)
    Markdown documentation (help center) · Building websites · Changed 05:35 am
    Keep the old addresses of a site working after a move to Exponential - collect them, build a mapping file, import it with a preview and a dry run, test it, undo it if needed, and export it for the web server or a backup.
  • Pre-generation of view cache (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Normally a page's view cache is made when someone first asks for the page after it was published or cleared ("cache on request"): that visitor waits for the rendering. With pre-generation ("cache on publishing"), the vie…
  • Discussion: Links (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • Configuring the view cache (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The view cache is configured in site.ini [ContentSettings], per siteaccess or for all of them in settings/override/site.ini.append.php. Setting Shipped value Meaning ViewCaching enabled Whether content views are cached C…
  • Clearing the view cache (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The view cache is cleared automatically when content is published, and can be cleared by hand in the administration and from a shell. What publishing clears When a version of an object is published (also the first one),…
  • Discussion: Setting visibility in the Admin Interface (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • Discussion: Re: Re: Sequence of the override files (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • View caching (11403666) (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The content view cache keeps the rendered result of a content page, so that the next request for the same page does not render its node templates again. It is the cache behind most page views of an Exponential site, and…
  • Discussion: Re: Sequence of the override files (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:35 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • User country (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:34 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    With country dependent VAT, the VAT a customer pays depends on the customer's country. Exponential knows a user's country from an attribute of the Country datatype (ezcountry) in the user class, and asks for it at checko…
  • Discussion: Sequence of the override files (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:34 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    Historical. This page holds a discussion from the documentation site of eZ Publish, the system Exponential grew out of. It is kept as it was written, for its history. The comments were written for eZ Publish 3 and 4 and…
  • Three approaches to VAT charging (Updated)
    Technical manual 6.x · Changed 05:34 am · Last updated by Graham Brookins on 11/07/2026
    The webshop supports three ways of charging VAT. Choose the simplest one that fits. 1. VAT per product Each product has a fixed VAT type, chosen when it is edited; a product class can set a default (see Assigning VAT typ…