eZ Platform Kernel

Welcome to the eZ Platform Kernel (also known as eZ Publish 6.x and higher kernel). The kernel is the heart of eZ Platform, a modern CMS built on top of the Symfony (Full Stack) Framework. Containing an advanced Content Model, it allows you to structure any kind of content or content-like data in a future-proof Content Repository. It also aims to provide additional features for the MVC layer (Symfony) to increase your productivity.

This code repository contains several layers of (and implementations of) APIs. Kernel refers to this being the core, as opposed to the Full Stack which has bundles, user interfaces, and installers, all configured to make a complete application.

In other words this repo is for core development; for fixes, features and documentation of the Platform kernel itself.

What is eZ Platform?

eZ Platform is a bottom-up rewrite of eZ Publish, so a conservative approach was taken on backwards compatibility. The first steps were taken by introducing it in 2012 as eZ Publish Platform 5.0. This bundled a Legacy Stack ("4.x") & a Platform Stack (formerly "5.x", or "new stack") together into one distribution. Starting in 2015 with eZ Platform, this is no longer the case. The Platform has matured to become its own modern, self-sufficient CMS/CMF, and it can be used to meet your needs without having to also deal with any Legacy elements.

Getting a Full Install (Full Stack)

Reflecting what is described above there are several options to get a full install of this Kernel, see:

eZ Platform: For a clean install of eZ Platform, a modern Symfony CMS.
eZ Platform demo: A demo website of eZ Platform, as an example for how to get started.
eZ Studio A commercial product extending eZ Platform to provide features and services aimed at Editors, Editorial teams, and larger organizations.

Overview of the Kernel

eZ Platform aims to be a set of reusable components, with a mix of decoupled and specific bundles putting it all together. From a high level point of view, it contains a Front End / UI Layer, Mid/MVC layer and a Backend (Repository). All layers contain further sub-layers consisting of smaller components.

This git repository contains the main parts of the MVC and Backend layers, with underlying components planned to be provided as separate (sub-tree split) packages for re-usability. As is the case with Solr Bundle.

Current Organization

In the doc folder you'll find Specifications for most features, including the REST API.

MVC layer:

eZ/Bundle is where you'll find bundles are that are important to expose the functionality of the Backend and MVC layer to Symfony.
eZ/Publish/Core/MVC contains the parts that make up the different components extending Symfony.
eZ/Publish/Core/Pagination is a component extending PagerFanta for pagination of eZ Platform search queries.
eZ/Publish/Core/REST is a component providing REST server and prototype of a REST Client.

Backend:

eZ/Publish/API is where you'll find the definition of the stable interfaces for the PHP Public API, mainly Content Repository API.
eZ/Publish/SPI SPI's are Service Provider Interfaces, not yet frozen.
eZ/Publish/Core is where you'll find implementations of both APIs and SPIs; the naming aims to map to name of the interface they implement. For example, Core\Persistence\Legacy being implementation of SPI\Persistence.

Testing Locally

This kernel contains a comprehensive set of unit, functional, and integration tests. At the time of writing, 9k unit tests, 8k integration tests, and several functional tests.

Dependencies

PHP 5 Modules: php5_intl php5_xsl php5_gd php5_sqlite (aka pdo\_sqlite)
Database: sqlite3, optionally: mysql/postgres if so make sure to have relevant pdo modules installed

For Contributing to this Bundle, you should make sure to run both unit and integration tests.

Set up this repository locally:

# Note: Change the line below to the ssh format of your fork to create topic branches to propose as pull requests
git clone https://github.com/ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel.git
cd ezpublish-kernel
composer install

Run unit tests:

At this point you should be able to run unit tests:
```
php -d memory_limit=-1 vendor/bin/phpunit
```

Run integration tests:

# If you want to test against mysql or postgres instead of sqlite, define one of these with reference to an empty test db:
# export DATABASE="mysql://root@localhost/$DB_NAME"
# export DATABASE="pgsql://postgres@localhost/$DB_NAME"
php -d memory_limit=-1 vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit-integration-legacy.xml

To run integration tests against Solr, see https://github.com/ezsystems/ezplatform-solr-search-engine.

This should produce a result similar to this: travis. If it doesn't, double-check .travis.yml for up-to-date info on how travis is set up.

Issue Tracker

Submitting bugs, improvements, and stories is possible on https://jira.ez.no/browse/EZP. If you discover a security issue, please see how to responsibly report such issues on https://doc.ez.no/Security.

Contributing

eZ Publish 5.x is a fully open source, community-driven project, and code contributions are simply done via GitHub pull requests.

Good manners:

Remember to first create an issue in our issue tracker and refer to it in commits and pull request headers. For example: "Fix EZP-20104: ContentController should return error status when content is not found" or "Implement EZP-201xx: Add support for X in Y"
If you want to contribute implementation-specification proposals, place them in the doc/ folder.
Keep different changes in different commits in case cherry-pick is preferred instead of a merge later.
- A Pull Request should only cover one issue.
- A commit should not contain code changes at the same time as doing coding standards/whitespace/typo fixes.
TDD: Write/Change the test(s) for the change you make and commit it before you do the actual code change.
- If a bug affects the Public API, write or enhance an integration test to make sure the bug is covered.
- Unit tests should only use mocks/stubs and never test the full stack like integration tests do.
Please test/check your commits before pushing even if we have automated checks in place on pull requests:
- Run unit tests and integration tests before commits
- Make sure you follow our coding standards

For further information, please have a look at the related guidance page. You will, among other things, learn how to make pull requests. More on this here: "How to contribute to eZ Publish using GIT".

Discussing/Exchanging

A dedicated forum has been set up to discuss all PHP API-related topics: http://share.ez.no/forums/new-php-api

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