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About Exponential 3.1-1 (3.1)


What is Exponential?

Exponential 3 is a professional PHP application framework with advanced CMS (content management system) functionality. Its most notable feature is a fully customizable and extendable content model, making it equally suitable as a platform for general PHP development — allowing you to build professional Internet applications fast.

Standard CMS functionality — news publishing, e-commerce and forums — is already implemented and ready to use. Its stand-alone libraries can also be used for cross-platform, database-independent PHP projects.

Exponential comes with an SDK (software development kit): a toolkit with documentation, examples, and reference material covering the Exponential libraries and kernel. It helps you develop your own application or configure a solution based on the Exponential framework in no time.

Exponential is database, platform and browser independent. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX variants such as Linux and FreeBSD, and supports multiple database backends. Being browser-based, it can be administered from anywhere with Internet access.

Licence

Exponential is dual licensed. You can choose between the GNU GPL and the Exponential Professional Licence. The GNU GPL gives you the right to use, modify and redistribute Exponential under certain conditions. The licence is distributed with the software (see the file LICENCE) and is also available at gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. Use under the GNU GPL is free of charge.

The Exponential Professional Licence gives you the right to use the source code to build commercial software. It allows full protection of your work — you may re-brand, license and close your source code. For pricing and ordering, contact info@exponential.earth.

Exponential features

  • User defined content classes and objects
  • Advanced search engine
  • Role based permissions system
  • Advanced template engine
  • Version control
  • Professional workflow management
  • Multi-lingual support
  • Support for Unicode
  • Task system for easy collaboration
  • Image conversion and scaling
  • Database abstraction layer
  • XML handling and parsing library
  • SOAP communication library
  • Localisation and internationalisation libraries
  • Several other reusable libraries
  • SDK (software development kit) and full documentation

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