Hello Everyone,

I noticed today during random google keyword searches, it's a quirk go with it; That Thiago Campos Viana Released Ibexa DXP Legacy Workflow project on Github 2 Days Ago with a companion video introducing his own creation based on eZ Publish 5 Kernel Workflow PHP Code transformed with Grok AI into a working valid solution in Symfony Bundles which is compatible with Ibexa DXP.

I think this is just more proof where it counts most of all that the core idea of eZ Publish will never die only continue to be reborn anew GNU and that the community still exists in a rather decentralized ecosystem that continues to innovate and create new solutions to answer questions asked long ago.

Legends never die!

//kracker 

I am very pleased today to announce the launch of ./SlashNews aka SlashNews at https://slashnews.earth

SlashNews is the clone of the historically popular tech news portal Slashdot.org theme / skin for the cms solution powered by Exponential 6.x and software combined from CHND/DiggClone projects under GNU GPLv2+ License.

This software combined is called simply 'Slash'. Slash is very simple yet scales to incredible demands and internal requirements. Slash is open source and soon to be published on GitHub.

Post a new story on slashNews.earth right now and enjoy the freedom of our self publishing and internet voting and link directory / news portal sharing website service to the public for the good of everyone online reading and using it.

About this software (Details behind the story)

This software is now several generations old now, this is the 3rd iteration of the original digg.one and diggClone projects which spawned the CHND/HND Projects before the creation of slash.

So .. I am excited to talk about DiggClone the inspiration for developing an eZ Publish based voting engine based on the existing ezinfocollection system.

That system is called Digg [Sigma] which is based on eZ Publish 6 but technically only for it's support for more modern PHP implementations and ease of use general purpose or generic web development framework and a cms, and cmf and so much more right out of the box.

eZ Publish choice here should not be taken lightly. Many previous efforts to re-implement digg like story voting systems have come and gone over the many years we are talking about here but few remain to provide a stable solution basis for others to use quickly in modern web applications. There was one that matured enough to become it's own interesting solution (i forget it's name offhand from general research searches) but I think it was built in drupal.

With an eZ Publish based solution the future is bright for it's continued growth and redistribution and general end user performance and reliability. We implement so that you don't have too. We write so that it will run virtually untouched for the foreseeable future indefinitely without help just electricity. We write once to solve problems from becoming problems.

SlashNews.earth aka ./SlashNews aka Slash (Engine) simply allows our DiggClone Project to grow faster by providing yet another reference implementation changes (modified only to suite non digg branding, not core functionality) to be integrated into the core build of DiggClone. Our next release work will focus on bringing a real home page layout (templates + css + extras) to clone.digg.one and the installable repository of website source code and the demo database sql data dump file.

Will you build a website based upon eZ Publish and 7x Slash, 7x Digg, Digg [Sigma], digg.one like SlashNews.earth or HackerNewsDelta.com Did to create their own unique social website portal platform in hours not weeks?

Cheers,
//kracker

As I take a minute to remember where I came from. As an outsider looking inwards towards greater heights of personal achivements and programing success.

I remembering the eZ Publish Greatness that changed Lives for the Better with the simple lessons found in

"The eZ Song" (YouTube Video Of Song; Easy Listening Music; 'The Sharing Song' By Jack Johnson). Here are the Lyrics.

Hi friends,

i write today regarding the subject matter of this previous post (eZ Publish Project and Portal Development for ezpublish.one (now redirecting to exponential.earth)) regarding the need to continue to drive the development of key technologies and infrastructure deliverables within the Exponential.earth Website Building Platform Network.

Since writing here on blog.kracker.org and on the exponential blog (eZ Publish Needs A Package Server Updated For 2023) more publicly about the future needs still very real today I’m proud to document the progress so far.

News

• 7x Share Blog: 7x Announces Project Rename From eZ Publish 6 To Exponential
• 7x Share Blog: 7x releases Exponential 6.0.10
• 7x Share Blog: 7x Releases Syndication Extension v1.1.0
• GB: 7x Announces Exponential Projects Source Code Forge
• 7x Blog: 7x Announces Exponential Projects

All this happened in a very very short period of release window time. But has been being designed and implemented in my very mind's eye for decades while waiting for the right time. 

New websites 

• support.exponential.earth - A way to browse the available extensions, use them, get support faster.
• projects.exponential.earth - A restored functional extension development forge designed to provide users with tools to create their own application software plugins.

What is still needed

A built into the cms gui extension composer based package manager and app store. 

• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for package management like composer require commands to install composer packages of extensions. Note already supports updating via composer update commands.
• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for scalable secure database dumps. timestamped, versioned, handlers to support dynamic encryption for dumps. Also requires anonymous security content filter to exclude registered user’s passwords or emails or user names or other privacy concerns.
• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for scalable secure compressed dumps of  database+timebased installation var directory hordes files are stored in a. timestamped, versioned, handlers to support dynamic encryption for dumps. 
• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for scalable secure database content package dumps. timestamped, versioned, handlers to support dynamic encryption for dumps. Also requires anonymous security content filter to exclude registered user’s passwords or emails or user names or other privacy concerns.
• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for scalable secure module view(s) to request and manage this information and creation process of dumps of a site as well as the anonymous user interface access view for agpl complete compliance through out its implementation.
• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for scalable secure installation source code backup as software archive package dumps. timestamped, versioned, handlers to support dynamic encryption for dumps. Also requires anonymous security content filter to exclude private api keys and settings values per installed ini files detection or other privacy concerns.
• New features added to ezupdate / expupdate to allow for scalable secure admin group only view to browse packages of ava extension, designs, operators, workflows, and more via this gui app  store.

More ideas as time permit.

Happy Hacking!

I have implemented a new but not unique system of using dns namespace for individual web page hostnames loading a rss / atom feed by default using hostname keywords selectively chosen for their topical needs based selection and bind this meta data in an unique eZ siteaccess configuration file horde of settings files needed in most common situations.

In the following examples I show the use of these configuration files settings to specify the default URL to load when the home page is loaded. It also supports loading other pages of content from the database or other system as well, it's eZ!

Music Feed Examples:

• Siteaccess name: org_feed_music_hp
• Custom siteaccess settings file configuration: site.ini.append.php
• Default Feed URL: https://music.feed.kracker.org
• https://music.feed.kracker.org/rss/feed/music

[SiteSettings]
SiteURL=blog.feed.kracker.org
IndexPage=/rss/feed/blog
DefaultPage=/rss/feed/blog

Blog Feed Examples:

• Siteaccess name: org_feed_blog_hp
• Custom siteaccess settings file configuration: site.ini.append.php
• Default Feed URL: https://blog.feed.kracker.org
• https://blog.feed.kracker.org/rss/feed/blog

[SiteSettings]
SiteURL=blog.feed.kracker.org
IndexPage=/rss/feed/blog
DefaultPage=/rss/feed/blog

Main Site Feed Examples:

• Siteaccess name: org_feed_hp
• Custom siteaccess settings file configuration: site.ini.append.php
• Default Feed URL: https://feed.kracker.org
• https://feed.kracker.org/rss/feed/org

[SiteSettings]
SiteURL=feed.kracker.org
IndexPage=/rss/feed/org
DefaultPage=/rss/feed/org

With mere meta data in the form of simple to make configuration settings value additions you too can have a flexible and reliable addition to your site and provide content feeds to help encourage others to adopt the use of your website content distribution platform's unique content leveraging your creative efforts to generate sales!

This is the main project portal for the eZ Publish Community.

This portal stands as a testament to the years of developer time and resources exhausted by individuals worldwide working towards a greater good resulting in a substantial open source lamp php based cms website building platform of software and addon packages created and kept online to ensure this project to support the end users of this platform. It's true that ezpublish users do still exist due to the historically problem free use of eZ Publish Platform (Regardless of actual Edition or Distributor) existing sites just keep serving pages without issues.

It's new projects that only had issues with the core eZ Systems Distribution in PHP8 Support and this was solved by 7x in 2023 resulting in the 7x Distribution of eZ Publish Legacy which now replaces for general use all previous versions of eZ Publish Legacy.

This portal promotes this open source project resources online to end users and developers who still believe in supporting eZ Publish today for continued deployment and development world wide as one of the most successfully reliable software projects the world has ever known.

We believe so much in eZ Publish core concepts and using the stable and reliable investment the GNU licensed software provides with minimal effort to the end user to develop in a sane way within PHP language without daily problem that end up being brick walls that we are still advocates for its continued use and software development in 2024 without eZ Systems/Ibexa involvement and instead 7x will drive development for future releases.

With eZ projects are more organized and rationally planned and implemented resulting in a maintainable solution basis that can regularly be extended via daily opportunities of time and effort resulting in fresh web applications that rarely need support or maintenance, they just keep running so smoothly.

The portal delivers extended and organized information about eZ Publish today and in the future we are looking into expanding this offering to include packages from version control systems through a friendly to use portal section i'm calling extensions.ezpublish.one. In this developer focused portal for the eZ Publish Community called eZ Publish Extensions!

Which should provide a listing of package providers, listing of package provider packages ordered by type (ordered categories list per package), last updated and created dates or other variable criteria, package star rating, package reviews, package comments, package issues, package activity listing embed for multiple uses throughout the site (atom feed for this same content in a different form), composer integration: vendor and package name display and storage, github / git / vcs / file integration: import projects from GitHub eZ Community Extensions Mirror Leader 7x / se7enxweb as master record of working software currently available for installation, we should support files and urls as equals as much as possible.

In the package display view we should include package download via custom user action commands (git, file link, composer, etc) each with extensive meta data needed to fully absorb the full availability to use this package immediately.

7x eZ Update extension could be updated and integrated to make composer package installation in admin simple and effective.

This would result in a full replacement under GNU of the projects.ez.no portal in terms of mass apeal to end users and extensive simple needs being met to help grow the user base by making the software available in places other than hidden in a GitHub Project Repository not being offered as the valuable add-ons our extensions to eZ Publish really are.

We have the software it's GNU and we can redistribute this software in new and exciting ways to attract more respect in the community as a project stand alone from Ibexa / eZ Systems AS.

Stay Tuned!

//kracker

I am excited to talk about Global Mandates the inspiration for developing an eZ Publish based voting engine based on the existing ezinfocollection system.

That system is called Digg [Sigma] which is based on eZ Publish 6 but technically only for it's support for more modern PHP implementations and ease of use general purpose or generic web development framework and a cms, and cmf and so much more right out of the box.

eZ Publish choice here should not be taken lightly. Many previous efforts to re-implement digg like story voting systems have come and gone over the many years we are talking about here but few remain to provide a stable solution basis for others to use quickly in modern web applications. There was one that matured enough to become it's own interesting solution (i forget it's name offhand from general research searches) but I think it was built in drupal.

With an eZ Publish based solution the future is bright for it's continued growth and redistribution and general end user performance and reliability. We implement so that you don't have too. We write so that it will run virtually untouched for the foreseeable future indefinitely without help just electricity. We write once to solve problems from becoming problems.

GM allows our DiggClone Project to grow faster by providing yet another reference implementation changes (modified only to suite non digg branding, not core functionality) to be integrated into the core build of DiggClone. Our next release work will focus on bringing a real home page layout (templates + css + extras) to clone.digg.one and the installable repository of website source code and the demo database sql data dump file.

Will you build a website based upon eZ Publish and 7x Digg, Digg [Sigma], digg.one like GlobalMandates.org Did to create their own unique social website portal platform in hours not weeks?

Cheers,
//kracker

PS. I wrote more about this on my eZ Publish blog today. My blog is simply The eZ Publish Blog!

I am developing a custom configuration of eZ Publish 6 to use for all kracker.org domain properties / sites.

Lessons learned here will help me grow my ability to scale eZ Publish to new levels of application hosting possible.