Developer Cookbook

Under this section you will find recipes for day-to-day Exponential 5 development.

• Exponential 5 Field Type Tutorial — This tutorial aims at covering the conception and development of a custom Exponential 5 FieldType.
  • Implementing the Legacy Storage Engine Converter
  • Implementing the Tweet\Type class
  • Implementing the Tweet\Value class
  • Registering the FieldType as a service
  • Template implementation
  • The bundle
    • Creating the bundle
    • Structuring the bundle
• How to authenticate a user with multiple user providers — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.3 / 2014.01
• How to convert request parameters into API objects
• How to create a new design using Bundle Inheritance — In this cookbook we will create a customized version of a template  from the DemoBundle.
• How to customize UserHash generation — Compatible with Exponential and (up to 2014.11)
• How to expose SiteAccess aware configuration for your bundle — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.4 / 2014.07
• How to implement a Custom Tag for XMLText FieldType — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.2 / 2013.07
• How to listen to Core events — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.2 / 2013.07
• How to paginate API search results — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.2 / 2013.11
• How to retrieve root location — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.2 / 2013.09
• How to run long-running console commands
• How to structure an eZ Platform project
• How-to trigger a workflow using the Public API — Fortunately, there is a quite simple way to trigger workflows from Exponential 5 code: by using a Legacy Kernel Callback. The overall process is described in the Legacy code and features documentation chapter.
• How to use a custom controller to display a content item or location — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.2 / 2013.07
• Import settings from a bundle — The following recipe is valid for any type of settings supported by Symfony framework.
• Use PHP5.4 built-in server — This recipe is compatible with Exponential 5.2 / 2013.05
• Using Composer — This page only applies to Exponential Platform 5.3 and higher, for earlier versions of the Enterprise version of Exponential consult Service Portal user guide available for download at support.ez.no http://support.ez.no. This page is also generic about using Composer, for instructions specific to a release, see release notes.
  • Composer for Frontend Developers
  • Composer for System Administrators