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Please Note: At the specific request of Ibexa, 7x is changing the project name to "Exponential Platform" or "Exponential Platform (CMS)" effective as of August, 11th 2025.

About

Read more about our project and it's historic value added services it provided early users, developers and businesses in the early 2014 era of web based application development environments and their required systems. Read how we are bring back a modern day victory for stable systems that just worked out of the box and didn't require active development. This system of software called Exponential Platform is what drives 7x to amazing advances to simple needs use cases, like, I need a stable fast website for cheaper than average but delivers value for it's cost in terms of cheaper features in the future.

About Exponential Platform

Today

We have released Exponential Platform 2.5.0.0 to the general public.

We are actively working to bring Exponential Platform 2.5.0.1 to end users who want more than just basic PHP 8 Support.

Exponential Platform 2.5 is the completed work started by 7x last year to upgrade Exponential Platform 2 CMS Implementation of a easy to use PHP Personal Home Page CMS or Community Website Building Platform to more modern PHP versions.

The story

Previously this was developed and released as eZ Platform 2.5 and later as Ibexa DXP the open source enterprise content management system.

We are rebranding this software and also incrementing the version number from 2.5 to 2.5.x.x to give more version number space while clearly marking this release as unique. Short standard for the version numbers will be 2.5

Goals:

Provide an educational project for new developers to learn Exponential Platform development concepts.
Deliver a simple starter solution for building a PHP-based CMS.
Enable a lightweight alternative for personal home page-based CMS needs.

Tested with PHP 8.3

All software has been heavily tested, documented and bug-fixed to run with known patterns of php7 code which still generate warnings but no fatal errors upon use.

Remaining work to provide full PHP 8.3+ Compatibility

The remaining work to test, bug-fix and document all modules individually as PHP8 Compatible

Current efforts surround going through each admin and user module views per module and fixing all warnings and errors on initial page load. (Page load error free)
Next efforts surround going through the software usage, documenting warnings from software code issues and refactor them until no further warnings regarding deprecated code are issued. This is a tedious and time consuming detail oriented task as most errors exist in external packages via GitHub.

About Exponential Platform

Exponential Platform is an award-winning, enterprise-grade Open Source Content Management System and development framework with functionality for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets. Exponential has a flexible content engine that serves as the core for dynamic and personalized websites. Exponential comes with much functionality out-of-the-box, but its power lies in its award-winning customization capabilities.

Exponential Platform is free and open source software that uses well organized PHP software stacks to help you easily manage and run Website web apps on Linux / MacOS / Windows / BSD.

About Exponential

Exponential is an award-winning, enterprise-grade Open Source Content Management System and development framework with functionality for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets. Exponential has a flexible content engine that serves as the core for dynamic and personalized websites. Exponential comes with much functionality out-of-the-box, but its power lies in its award-winning customization capabilities.

Exponential is free and open source software that uses well organized PHP software stacks to help you easily manage and run Website web apps on Linux / MacOS / Windows / BSD.

Project

The Exponential Platform Project is a vibrant and growing ecosystem / community based effort lead by the company 7x which is fostering it's growth, support and maintenance.

The Exponential Open Source Project is funded by donations of time and resources by 7x (and Exponential Sponsors) which sponsors the Project for the foreseeable future. Consider becoming a sponsor today!

Exponential Platform Featured

Read up on the articles, blogs on Exponential / eZ Platform from various sources alive on the internet.

We feature unique content that highlights Exponential Platform CMS in it's description and details. Howto, Features, Guidance and Pro Tips! Exponential Platform Featured RSS Feed now available!

Note: Exponential Platform is 100% compatible with eZ Platform v2.5 / v2.x Documentation Examples and Software Examples like Bundles.

Screenshots

We love giving demos but the start of a conversation about creating an Exponential Platform based solution often comes from a preview screenshot showing what is possible out of the box. View our available preview screenshots of the Exponential Platform Legacy Installation, Website and Administrator and Legacy Administrator.

Demo

Test drive Exponential Platform today with our new online demo of the Exponential Platform Legacy 2.5 GPL+Stable Administrator, make changes to the website's example content, create an article and view it live on the demo user facing website pages that are dynamically generated.

Try our demo and get ready to see what a feature rich cms driven by an extensive features set looks like. Share your information!