Core-2.0 welcomes many important generational improvements over the Core-1.x series. First and foremost, Core-2.0 removes all legacy and deprecated code. Second, Core-2.0 is entire founded on Symfony 3 with many important and stable associated bundles. Core-2.0 also contains Doctrine, Bootstrap, Font-Awesome, jQuery and Twig as a basis for development. A new namespaced extension structure is standardized that is based on Symfony bundles, so development for an experienced Symfony developer will be easy. Building a new website application becomes easier and development time is shortened dramatically by using the included tools and APIs.

Foundation

• Based on Symfony 3.x which provides stability, continuity and extensibility
• Uses Doctrine for persisting data
• Uses Twig as template engine
• Uses SwiftMailer for email handling

Extensions and bundles

• Modular development system
  • Modules are bundles which can be installed/uninstalled during runtime
• Hook system for connecting module features with each other
  • Hooks are a dynamic event dispatcher, allowing the administrator to choose which listeners respond to events.

Themes and templating

• Twig-based theme engine for site-wide theming
  • Themes are bundles which can be installed/uninstalled during runtime
• Integration of de-facto frontend technologies
  • Twitter Bootstrap
  • Font Awesome
  • jQuery

Users and security

• Users and Groups management
  • OAuth integration
  • Extensible/customizable User authorization API
• Dynamic user rights/permissions management by group
• Included add-ons
  • OAuth module (allows login via Facebook, Github, Google or LinkedIn Credentials)
  • Profile module (user profile information)
  • Legal module (TOS, Age Check, etc)

Administration

• Centralized site administration interface
• Multi-language & translation support
• Centralized category management
• Dynamic and flexible content block creation
• Centralized search functionality
• Menu system based on KnpMenu

Developer gems

• Centralized category assignments by entity
• Several distinct APIs for feature utilization
• Imagine image manipulation library integration
• CLI based module skeleton generator
• Multi-Sites capability (one core-base, multiple custom DB)

ModuleStudio (MOST)

• Model-Driven Software Development tool
  • rapid prototyping
  • easy customization
  • quick updating
• Creates models describing your extensions
• Generates the Zikula module implementation
• Read more at the project’s website

Community Driven Modules

• Pages (Basic content pages)
• Scribite (WYSIWYG JS Editor integration)
• Dizkus (Forum)
• MediaModule (Media management)
• Formicula (Contact form generator)
• Piwik (Piwik integration)

Legacy Modules not yet converted but intended to be done

• News (Blog system)
• Content (Advanced content pages)
• Multisites (Multisites system)
• PostCalendar (Calendar and event system)
• Tag (Tagging hook)
• EZComments (Comments hook)
• Captcha (Anti-spam hook)
• Several others…