se7enxweb / bccie

v1.1.12 2026-10-05 03:17 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.0.0
• se7enxweb/ezpublish-legacy-installer: *

GPL-2.0-or-later

• 7x
• Brookins Consulting
• Vitalis Mathias

• csv
• utf8
• export
• report
• reports
• cie
• sylk
• exponential

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-05 03:19 UTC

README

What is the BC CIE extension?

BC CIE is a true Exponential extension that provides cronjob parts, class methods and module views to provide easy export of collected informations from content objects into to csv or sylk (Excel) export files.

Version

The current version of BC CIE is 1.1.12

You can find details about changes for this version in doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG-1.1.12.md

Copyright

BC CIE is copyright 1999 - 2017 Brookins Consulting and 2006 - 2007 Mathias VITALIS

See: doc/COPYRIGHT.md for more information on the terms of the copyright and license

License

BC CIE is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The complete license agreement is included in the LICENSE file.

BC CIE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

BC CIE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The GNU GPL gives you the right to use, modify and redistribute BC CIE under certain conditions. The GNU GPL license is distributed with the software, see the file LICENSE.

It is also available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with BC CIE in LICENSE. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Using BC CIE under the terms of the GNU GPL is free (as in freedom).

For more information or questions please contact: [e-mail]

Requirements

The following requirements exists for using BC CIE extension:

• Exponential version:

Make sure you use Exponential 6.0 or higher (legacy 4.x kernels run the 1.0 and 1.1 releases up to 1.1.11).

• PHP version:

Make sure you have PHP 5.x or higher.

Installation

Details on installing BC CIE located in the file doc/INSTALL.md.

Usage

Click the CIE tab of the admin (/bccie/overview). The start page shows the forms that collected information, the last exports and the problems found; open a form to choose the fields, the date range, the type (CSV or SYLK), the separator and the character set. A small export is written while you wait; a large one (more than DirectExportLimit collections, 2000 by default) runs in the background and the file is offered for download when it is done.

The role needs bccie/read; removing collected information needs bccie/remove as well.

Spreadsheet safety: a text cell that starts with =, +, - or @ gets a leading single quote, so a spreadsheet does not run it as a formula. Text stays UTF-8; choose the cp1252, utf8bom or utf16le character set for older Excel versions.

Console commands

./console ext:bccie:export --object=ID [--format=csv|sylk] [--separator=semicolon] [--charset=utf8bom] [--from=YYYY-MM-DD] [--dry-run]
./console ext:bccie:export --cron [--format=sylk] [--dry-run]   # the scheduled export of cie.ini
./console ext:bccie:status
./console ext:bccie:purge --object=ID [--before=YYYY-MM-DD] [--dry-run] --yes

Every command shows its options with --help. The cronjob parts exportcsv and exportsylk (php runcronjobs.php exportcsv) run the same code as ext:bccie:export --cron.

Troubleshooting

• Read the FAQ

Some problems are more common than others. The most common ones are listed in the doc/FAQ.md.

• Support

If you have find any problems not handled by this document or the FAQ you can contact Brookins Consulting through the support system: http://brookinsconsulting.com/contact