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- From contributor to maintainer (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Community · Changed 01:08 pm
How a regular Exponential contributor takes on maintenance - of their own extension, of an abandoned one, or of an area of the project - what maintainers do, the release discipline they follow, and how to hand over when… - From user to contributor (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Community · Changed 01:08 pm
How an Exponential user becomes a regular contributor - noticing what to improve, the first three contributions, choosing one area, building trust with maintainers, and keeping a record of your work. - What the Exponential Community is (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Community · Changed 01:08 pm
Who belongs to the Exponential Community, what its members do, the organizations inside it, what the community is not, and what the sources do not say about it. - Your first week in the community (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Community · Changed 01:08 pm
Seven days, one small step a day - from reading the code of conduct to making your first contribution - for anyone who is new to the Exponential Community. - Contribute extensions back: share your work with everyone (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Development · Changed 01:08 pm
Why and how to give the extensions you build back to the Exponential project so everyone can use them; what the GNU GPL really requires when you distribute an extension (and what it does not require for a site you only… - Access control in code (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Apply Exponential's permissions in every layer of an application - the current user, policy checks with limitations, content-level checks, running background work as the right user, integration users, and recording… - Application creators: frequently asked questions (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Short answers to the questions application creators ask most - classes not found, changes that do not show under Velocity, permissions, settings, forms refused, JSON, cron, queues, tests and where to ask. - The application creator's reading path (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
The pages of the application creators' section in the order an application is built - six stages from the first extension to a scaled production system - with what you should be able to do after each stage. - Application creators: start here (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
The landing page for application creators - what Exponential gives an application, a first-week plan, and every page of this section grouped by task, from the first extension to APIs, AI, queues, testing, deployment… - Architecture for application creators (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
How a request flows through Exponential - front controller, siteaccess, module and view, templates and pagelayout - and where kernel, extensions, settings, designs and var/ fit, so you know where your code goes. - Autoloads and class naming (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
How Exponential finds your classes - the generated autoload arrays, when to regenerate them, naming new classes with the exp prefix, namespaced runnable classes, Composer autoloading, and the errors a stale autoload… - Background work: queues, cronjobs and content jobs (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Choose where an application's slow or periodic work runs - in the request, in a workflow, a cronjob part, an expqueue job or a kernel content job - with a decision table and patterns for imports, notifications and… - Caching in applications (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Cache an application's work correctly - which kernel caches exist, cache blocks for template output, caching computed data in PHP with eZClusterFileHandler and expiry, clearing on change, caches under Velocity's… - Continuous integration for extensions (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Set up CI for an extension the way the kernel does it - GitHub Actions jobs for PHP syntax on every supported version, PHPUnit, static analysis, commit message checks, least privileges, and testing against the… - CLI scripts with eZScript (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Write command line tools for an application - the class-based Command with script(), startup() and options, the classic eZScript pattern, eZCLI output, siteaccess and user, exit codes, dry runs and safety. - Clustering and shared storage (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Run Exponential on several web servers - the cluster file handlers (eZFSFileHandler, eZDFSFileHandler) in file.ini, the DFS mount and its database, sessions, cron and queue workers, and how application code stays… - Composer packages and Packagist (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Publish an extension as a Composer package - the package name and type, version constraints, tags, Packagist and its webhook, installing a package into an installation, and updating safely. - Console commands (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
The bin/php/console entry point - command names and namespaces, extension commands found automatically, describing your own commands, options and exit codes, and the commands an application developer uses every day. - Content jobs (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
How the kernel runs large content operations in the background - removes, copies, moves, hides, sections, states, locations, package installs and audit exports - with their progress page, command, cronjob part, settings… - Content Security Policy for your code (Updated, Markdown page)
Markdown documentation (help center) · Building applications · Changed 01:08 pm
Write templates and scripts that run under Exponential's Content Security Policy - no inline scripts, handlers or styles; page scripts as files, data-* attributes and JSON data blocks; adding sources; reading the CSP…
