Hi Inkernet!

Today the Exponential Foundation released a Brand New Design Update for the Exponential.earth Project Website!

This site includes an extended information display to exponential.earth/download/statistics with 7x Composer Packages for Exponential into the website section with improved responsive caching (for more reliable performance).

Checkout the new download statistics section content!

https://exponential.earth/download/statistics

Happy Hacking!

Cheers,
Graham

Hi Inkernet!

Today the Exponential Foundation released a Brand New Design for the Exponential.earth Project Website!

This site includes a more professional design for the site, a changelog section, a extension section and a more information and key resource links!

Checkout the new design, features and content sections!

https://exponential.earth

Happy Hacking!

Cheers,
Graham

7x is extremely pleased to announce the wave of releases for Exponential Platform Legacy to users worldwide. 

Try our brand new kernel, responsive admin design, responsive website design for the front end and lots of your favorite classic features!

7x urges you to run Exponential Platform Legacy on a secure release of PHP like 8.3 but our software supports both PHP 8.1 through 8.5 so there is no reason not to upgrade to a more stable and secure Exponential Platform Legacy.

Read the Share announcements for v3.3.44.7, v4.6.23.2 and v5.0.2. You can download the releases from GitHub or Composer! Then start a conversation about your own experience on our share forums about Exponential Platform. For those who don’t know about Exponential Platform Legacy yet read up on our favorite free software (GPL) content management system Exponential Platform Legacy.

I am very excited to announce the release of Exponential Basic 2.4.0.2 which includes a greatly expanded and bugfixed kernel featuring our PHP 8.5 support added into the kernel design.

This release features a wide range of improvements to the core kernel modules provided by default like php 8.4/8.5 support.

- Almost all previous reported/unreported bugs have been fixed with help with Claude Sonnet 4.6.

- Performance enhacements made to article frontpage view and trade product listing view. Improved page loading (speed). 

- eZGroupEventCalendar bugfixes have been made to restore proper use of the calendar as originally designed. (All views function as designed).

- SQLite performance has been improved greatly including more reliable locking timeout handling within the kernel.

Exponential Basic is based upon an eZ Publish 2.x module based kernel now reorganized and refactored to use the main directory named 'kernel/' to hold all of the Exponential Basic Modules (presently, including your custom modules (refactor to operate within the eZ Publish Basic Kernel Layout)).

Exponential Basic comes with a strong recommendation to use mod_rewrite provided by Apache and many other similar web servers to route all requests through our main front index.php file. Same for admin virtual host based website administration.

Exponential Basic is the same cms as originally introduced as eZ Publish 1.0 to 2.2.9 (last version; surprisingly minimal changes in this time) with regards to base features provided and supported, yet Exponential Basic goes further with the integration of eZ Region from (Brookins Consulting; 2001) and many features developed to refine the e-commerce store integration not seen in years or ever. This makes eZ PB a more usable solution for USA based users. More feature expansion is expected in future releases as we release more code over time.

This means with Exponential Basic 2.4.0.2 you can use the new PHP 8.5 support on your existing eZ Publish 2 website(s) with a simple backup and upgrade. Note: Exponential Basic DB Schema is more improved than changed with few differences other than bugfixes.

Pull your older eZ Publish 2 code out of your hard drive records and take a walk down memory lane and upgrade today! Some development may be required.

7x plans to continue to support and develop Exponential Basic for the foreseeable future. Contact me if you are interested in buying 7x Paid Support to Hire me to help you reach your goals faster than alone.

7x is excited to once again be releasing officially a new diggClone based project called HND aka Hacker News [Delta] at HackerNewsDelta.com.

Hacker News [Delta] is the social networking news website where the news is user submitted and moderated.

Start by creating a account and then voting for your favorite stories on /all/upcoming, advanced users should submit news stories for others to vote.

Instructions: Signup or login and then navigate to a sub category to be able to submit your own unique news story for others to vote for!

Hacker News Delta is an open source website clone of News.YCombinator.com built upon the sevenx_hackerNewsDelta social news and content object voting platform (Exponential 6.x).

Everyone is free to register for an account and use the website to read, vote and submit news to the world.

This project will be packaged and released in the future as individual extensions (ie: hackerNewsDelta) to Exponential and as a website download (hackerNewsClone) that is easy to install yourself.

Enjoy / Happy Hacking!

Cheers!

Thanks in part to the recent successes by myself, 7x and the greater Exponential Ecosystem / Community / Users downloading, cloning and studying all four of our cms's source code I was inspired to build a new part to Exponential.earth a section callled by url of /download/statistics which provides Download Statistics From GitHub.com & SourceForge.net.

Try the new download statistics report view today and watch as the downloads reach a wider audience than ever expected.

This view will be redesigned in the near future to be simpler to consume regularly at a glance with less information duplication and perhaps project logos ;)

7x now offers a new supported product Exponential Platform 3.2.9.GPL Stable

Based upon older released eZ Platform 3.2/3.3 (PHP 7 version) upgraded to PHP 8.3 Support.

Exponential Platform as it's name mentions includes Platform (Symfony Without Legacy Hybrid Kernel). Symfony Kernel, Super powerful.

The editing experience is simple and quite impressive.

Our first release is now available for download via Composer, GitHub, SourceForge in tar.gz or zip files.

7x has also started another open source project for this product and website @ platform.exponential.earth

More news on share announcement!

I am very excited to announce the release of Exponential Basic 2.4.0.1 which includes a greatly expanded and bugfixed kernel featuring our PHP 8.3 support added into the kernel design.

This release features a wide range of improvements to the core kernel modules provided by default, new contributed modules from the community, a new kernel layer introduced from Exponential 6.x to provide for composer compatible autloads allowing the removal of thousands of calls via include_once, eZ INI library ezutils library, a newly introduced user front end and admin back-end controller implementation based on the merger of EB 2.2 and Exponential 6.x Kernels for HTTP Request responses. In most ways via the front end also improved or via the admin the feel of the cms + framework is truly easy to use and memorable. It features bulk import features, export features, and powerful eCommerce store shop features. There are hundreds of improvements to notice and enjoy out of the box prepared for the user and developer!

Exponential Basic is based upon an eZ Publish 2.x module based kernel now reorganized and refactored to use the main directory named 'kernel/' to hold all of the Exponential Basic Modules (presently, including your custom modules (refactor to operate within the eZ Publish Basic Kernel Layout)).

Exponential Basic comes with a strong recommendation to use mod_rewrite provided by Apache and many other similar web servers to route all requests through our main front index.php file. Same for admin virtual host based website administration.

Exponential Basic is the same cms as originally introduced as eZ Publish 1.0 to 2.2.9 (last version; surprisingly minimal changes in this time) with regards to base features provided and supported, yet Exponential Basic goes further with the integration of eZ Region from (Brookins Consulting; 2001) and many features developed to refine the e-commerce store integration not seen in years or ever. This makes eZ PB a more usable solution for USA based users. More feature expansion is expected in future releases as we release more code over time.

This means with Exponential Basic 2.4.0.0 you can use the new PHP 8.3 support on your existing eZ Publish 2 website(s) with a simple backup and upgrade. Note: eZ PB DB Schema is more improved than changed with few differences other than bugfixes.

Pull your older eZ Publish 2 code out of your hard drive records and take a walk down memory lane and upgrade today! Some development may be required.

7x plans to continue to support and develop eZ Publish Basic for the foreseeable future. Contact me if you are interested in buying 7x Paid Support to Hire me to help you reach your goals faster than alone.

7x has recently launched their company blog at https://blog.se7enx.com

7x will expand to cover more recent news from 7x directly from the 7x website news and blog.

I think more coverage from 7x on less than news yet important progress points and changes to be documented this way.

I'll be posting, will you be reading? There is also a blog rss feed available for remote consumption.

7x now offers a new supported product Exponential Platform Legacy 2.5 GPL Stable

Based upon older released eZ Platform Legacy (PHP 7 version) upgraded to PHP 8.3 Support.

Exponential Platform Legacy as it's name mentions includes Platform (Symfony + Legacy Hybrid Kernel) + Legacy Stack. Two in one. Dual Kernel. Super powerful.

This doubles your features in one simple CMS.

Our first release is now available for download via Composer, GitHub, SourceForge in tar.gz or zip files.

7x has also started another open source project for this product and website @ platform.exponential.earth

I am very excited to announce the release of eZ Publish 6.0.9 which includes the new PHP 8.4 support to the kernel.

The headless cms crud rest apis were released originally as ezprestapi extension which replaces the ezprestapiprovider extension.

This is the first which we are bundling this extension (enabled by default installation) but not enabled via configuration settings to ensure a secure default installation. That said it's very easy to get started by configuring it for use and accessing the REST APIs.

My first attempt was to enable this package for use on digg.one to allow for remote content publishing apis to use to create stories nodes remotely in eZ. It works perfectly and it's very secure by design.

I would like to write an article with example source code showing how to consume and create content using this extensions HTTP APIs for rest calls.

There are very minimal booting changes from the previous release which require PHP 8.1 support. This means as of 6.0.8 PHP 7 Support is Deprecated and You must use PHP 8.1 or greater from now on. This is best for security reasons related to PHP support of older releases being minimal at best.

This means with eZ Publish 6.0.9 you can use the new PHP 8.4 support on your existing eZ Publish website with a simple backup and upgrade.

If you must continue to use PHP7 you can use the latest release from the 6.0.7 branch / release for the foreseeable future.

I am very excited to announce the release of eZ Publish Basic 2.4.0.0 which includes the new PHP 8.3 support to the kernel.

eZ Publish Basic is based upon an eZ Publish 2.x module based kernel now reorganized and refactored to use the main directory named 'kernel/' to hold all of the eZ Publish Basic Modules (presently, including your custom modules (refactor to operate within the eZ Publish Basic Kernel Layout)).

eZ Publish Basic comes with a strong recommendation to use mod_rewrite provided by Apache and many other similar web servers to route all requests through our main front index.php file. Same for admin virtual host based website administration.

eZ Publish Basic is the same cms as originally introduced as eZ Publish 1.0 to 2.2.9 (last version; surprisingly minimal changes in this time) with regards to base features provided and supported, yet eZ Publish Basic goes further with the integration of eZ Region from (Brookins Consulting; 2001) and many features developed to refine the e-commerce store integration not seen in years or ever. This makes eZ PB a more usable solution for USA based users. More feature expansion is expected in future releases as we release more code over time.

This means with eZ Publish Basic 2.4.0.0 you can use the new PHP 8.3 support on your existing eZ Publish 2 website(s) with a simple backup and upgrade. Note: eZ PB DB Schema is more improved than changed with few differences other than bugfixes.

Pull your older eZ Publish 2 code out of your hard drive records and take a walk down memory lane and upgrade today! Some development may be required.

7x plans to continue to support and develop eZ Publish Basic for the foreseeable future. Contact me if you are interested in buying 7x Paid Support to Hire me to help you reach your goals faster than alone.

I am very excited to announce the release of eZ Publish 6.0.8 which includes the new PHP 8.4 support to the kernel.

These were very minimal booting changes which require PHP 8.1 support. This means as of 6.0.8 PHP 7 Support is Deprecated and You must use PHP 8.1 or greater from now on. This is best for security reasons related to PHP support of older releases being minimal at best.

This means with eZ Publish 6.0.8 you can use the new PHP 8.4 support on your existing eZ Publish website with a simple backup and upgrade.

If you must continue to use PHP7 you can use the latest release from the 6.0.7 branch / release for the foreseeable future.

I am very excited to announce the release of eZ Publish 6.0.7 which includes the new admin feature added into the sub items display which allows the copying of subtree selections of content locations (nodes/objects/folders/articles/etc) to a new existing location by default.

This means with eZ Publish 6.0.7 you can use the admin3 design to copy content on your website to exiting locations with ease, perhaps using your cell phone!

Hello again, thank you for reading my blog. We at 7x stay small and nimble in our work to ensure a strong focus on quality control.

Have a quick look at the new eZ Publish 6 Project Home Page. This was just recently updated content under a new simpler to remember URL.

Here we will use this website to attract end users to our software and hopefully they will stay to join with our community of like minded website builders.

Have a look and consider joining our community today at any level you can, just speak up in the forums or chat channel.

I write today to reflect on the nature and type of work being done recently at 7x.

I fined that I have learned a new skill and that is default installation (dynamic setting and database configuration) programming via eZ Publish package development in the form of what is called a site package.

7x has developed a new replacement for the older ezflow, ezdemo, ezwebin site package installers called sevenx (technically sevenx_site.ezpkg).

This solution was made part of the release of eZ Publish 6 on or before January 1st 2024.

While traditional kernel development (file changes in the ezpublish repository) have slowed in February after the release of eZ Publish 6.0.1 on February 1st 2024 another type of development has resumed which is eZ Publish default installation testing and development which has included the upkeep and amount of the packages.ezpublishlegacy.se7enx.com package server.

I wrote previously in support of an increased presence of an eZ Publish Package Server in the talking points surrounding a feature complete cms.

I also wrote previously in support of Netgen supporting eZ Publish with implementing a feature complete update of the package server needed to distribute eZ Publish to new users and in general which 7x took up the challenge to do the work first to share with Netgen.

While other vendors focus on just a small feature addition here or there within an eZ Publish website; 7x is looking at the entire system as a platform which means we see needs that often go overlooked like self-hosting the eZ Publish Package Server and maintaining the packages it hosts to the general public.

We moved this older se7enx.com resource from our own hosting to a faster more reliable GitHub based hosting. This ensures future collaboration with others with eZ Publish Packages for distribution.

We recently shared a older but solid ezpaypal-ezpackage repository reverse engineered from binary ezpkg sources licensed under the GNU GPL. We updated this repository to provide the latest eZ PayPal version 1.2.0 software (a now long stable software package).

This package is installed as a required dependency of the 7x eZ package (sevenx_site) and soon will be installed as a dependency of the other site packages (ezwebin, ezdemo, ezflow) once we get closer to 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. As it takes time to add the required code and release it to the git repositories and package server per package (dependencies required; collection).

This will mean that the older site installers (each site package contains an installer php file that does the work) for each site package (ezwebin, ezdemo, ezflow) (content and no-content) will get a refresh and soon be worth testing all over again.

We will come to this point once we begin to merge over changes made to sevenx_site package to the other packages like the installer, package xml, and packaged dependencies get updated when we begin to refresh the actual content installed (content tree). We are aiming to have this completed for the 6.0.3 release.

This will strip out eZ Systems Products and Marketing from the default demo website and allow us to finally refresh the content class datatypes used (add html5 video support to the existing video class among many others like installing more example data like enable comments by default and have them working; Also Add ezstarrating datatype to most of all the content classes; experiment adding xrowmetadata extension into the default data as it requires very little configuration to start using, ++). Lots of ideas of what more features we could offer by default to default installation users who could be swayed by a new feature rich demo of what we have already we just need to start offering it by default in the default demo content as installed by the site package selection (which installs a demo content package of classes and objects (content tree nodes)).

It's deep stuff and it is time consuming to test to ensure the build of available packages remains stable and functional as you never know who is testing the current packages selection at any given time.

Yet it is rewarding once the package server contents has become much more stable and feature rich as it has been refactored lightly with the lessons of years of eZ Publish development (simplifying the var dir pathing in a default installation for example).

If your interested in sharing your extensions on our 7x eZ Publish Package Server; Please reach out and contact me via email.

This is just too cool for words. It’s really coming true, SQLite Database Support equal to MySQL or Oracle but drastically cheaper in cost to get started quickly. 

Have you ever wished to reduce your own database headaches with eZ Publish?

For years I’ve watched others developing with eZ and wished silently for the day when SQLite database driver support in the eZ Publish kernel and setup wizard would be generally available to end users. 

I have grown from not just dreaming but stepping up, reaching my goals and making my dreams come true with hard work.

Checkout the newly refreshed installation process. We lightly refactored the default setup wizard to provide for a completely simple database selection choice and full installation support for site package data and site configuration used when building a SQLite driven database eZ Publish website, kiosk app or other unique use cases.

With this new feature of our software eZ Publish 6.0.1 (github/main;unreleased) you on need to install PHP, PHP Extensions (required by eZ Publish which now includes the SQLite driver which is painless to install using your favorite OS package manager). As a Debian advocate I recommend APT which is a time saver in life in all things. Back to the point after php is installed you only need to install composer! That’s it! Run the php built in web server and install a full working eZ Publish installation in minutes instead of hours or potentially days. This is a big deal for people who just want to use the software without having the requirements of a full web server or database server setup just to try using the latest version.

The quickest way to get started is to install via composer using the main branch of the project version control.

Here is to a new year full of exciting developments in eZ Publish History.