lithium

Introduction to Lithium

Elizabeth Naramore | CodeWorks 2012

Criteria for Choosing a Framework (or not)

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3Requirements

License

Extensibility

Community

Business Value

InteroperabilitySecurity

Documentation

Testing

Configurability

Caching

Scalability

Localization

Web ServicesReputation

Commit Activity

Architecture

Data StorageCode

Requirements

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Requirements- PHP 5.3+- Web Server

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License

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License- New BSD (3 clause)- https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/blob/

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Extensibility

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Core

li3_quality li3_queue li3_docs li3_lab li3_design

li3_lldr

li3_sqlsrv

li3_cldr

li3_accessli3_facebook

li3_oauth

li3_botli3_mailer

li3_geo

li3_filesystem

Extensibility- http://lithium101.com

- http://lithify.me/docs/manual/extending-lithium/plugins.wiki

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Extensibility- Github search- Lithium Bootstrap: https://github.com/tmaiaroto/li3_bootstrap- Embed Wordpress with Lithium: https://github.com/mackstar/li3_wordpress

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Community

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Community:- Can I get help? Where?- Can I hire someone knowledgable?- Can I contribute? How?

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Support:- IRC #li3 on Freenode- http://sphere.orchestra.io- http://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/issues- http://lithium101.com- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lithium

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Hiring

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Contributing:- http://lithify.me (front page!)- 13 core contributors- IRC #li3-core on Freenode

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Business Value

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Interoperability

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Any third party code can be used as a library.

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Libraries are managed by the lithium\core\Libraries class, which handles auto-loading, service location, and introspecting available classes. PSR-0 compatible.

https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/blob/master/core/Libraries.php

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Security

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Lithium provides basic functionality for user authentication, data sanitization, filtering input/escaping output and CSRF protection. Form signing is in testing.

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Documentation

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Documentation:- Are there articles/tutorials on using it?- Can I understand the code?- Is there information on contributing?

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Documentation (end user):- http://lithify.me/docs/tutorial- http://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium.wiki- http://lithium101.resources- http://lithify.me/docs/manual/quickstart

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Documentation (in code):

For example, in Libraries.php, roughly 42% of the lines of code are comments.

Not just what, but how and why.

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Documentation (contributing):

http://lithify.me (front page!)https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/wiki/Contributing

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Well Tested

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Let’s see if the build’s passing.

http://travis-ci.org/#!/UnionOfRAD/lithium

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Testing Frameworks

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Lithium has a custom,

embedded testing framework to make it easy for you to run tests.

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http://lithify.me/docs/manual/quality-code/testing.wiki

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Configurability

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https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/blob/master/core/Environment.php

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Performance

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Universal Cache Class:- Memcache- APC- File- Redis- Xcache- Custom

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https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/tree/master/storage/cache/adapter

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Scalability

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Decoupled and flexible.

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Localization

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Core

li3_quality li3_queue li3_docs li3_lab li3_design

li3_lldr

li3_sqlsrv

li3_cldr

li3_accessli3_facebook

li3_oauth

li3_botli3_mailer

li3_geo

li3_filesystem

http://lithify.me/docs/manual/globalization/readme.wiki

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Web Services

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https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/blob/master/net/http/Service.php

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- https://github.com/MLKiiwy/li3_amazon

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Activity

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https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/graphs/commit-activity

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Reputation

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Architecture

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- MVC- Adapters/Helpers- Aspect Oriented- Uses PHP 5.3 Features

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http://lithify.me/docs/manual/lithium-basics/architecture.wiki

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Data Storage

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- MySQL- SQLite3- CouchDB- MongoDB

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For More Info:58

http://lithify.me

http://pages.engineyard.comWCEYIndroducingLithium072612.html

https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895461/lithium/lithium%20data%20sheet.pdf

http://lithium101.com

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enaramore@engineyard.com

@ElizabethN

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