impresscms persistable framework: rapid modules development

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ImpressCMS Persistable Framework: Rapid Modules Development

Conférence PHP QuébecMarch 4th 2009

By Marc-André LanciaultINBOX International inc.


Who are we ?

• INBOX International inc.• Created early 2003• PHP/MySQL Wen Development• XOOPS / ImpressCMS / LAMP Expertise• Founders of The SmartFactory (smartfactory.ca) – more then

1500 members– XOOPS / ImpressCMS modules development team– SmartSection, SmartFAQ, SmartPartner, SmartClient,

SmartQuiz, SmartCredit, SmartShop, SmartMail, SmartMailLight, SmartObject…


ImpressCMS History

• In December 2007, 30 well known contributors of XOOPS start a new fork called ImpressCMS

• Focus: development of a “Communiy Management System”• January 8th 2008: first release• Marc 2nd 2009: release of ImpressCMS 1.1.2 RC 2 which is the

22nd release sice the first one• According to Ohloh.net:

– « Very large, active development team. »– « Over the past twelve months, 34 developers contributed new

code to ImpressCMS. »– « This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is

in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh. »


ImpressCMS History

• October 30th 2008: ImpressCMS wins 3rd place in“Most Promising Open Source CMS” Packt Awards

• January 21st 2008, ImpressCMS development is moved from SourceForge to its very own Trac system which increase efficiently exponentially

• As of March 3rd 2009, 8198 commits were made in ImpressCMS SVN

• This is more than 500 commits per month


What is ImpressCMS

• Open Source Community Management System• Développed with PHP / MySQL• History

– PHPNuke– NukeAddons– myPHPNuke– myPHPNuke SE– XOOPS 1.x– XOOPS 2.0.17– ImpressCMS


Important features

• Easy Installation• Modular structure• Very flexible, themable interface• Smarty Template Engine• Users management• Groups and permissions management• Notification system• Comments system• Global search engine• LDAP / OpenID Authentification • Modular approach => More then 500 modules available


IPF: ImpressCMS Persistable Framework

• Derived from the SmartObject Framework• Natively integrated in ImpressCMS• Goals

– Addressed 80% of common tasks of most module– Enable easy and rapid development– Reuse code wherever possible (centralization, easy

maintenance, use less ressources, etc...)

• Main concepts:– DRY (Dont Repeat Yourself)– KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid)– Convention over Configuration


IPF Main Features

• Create, edit and delete objects• List objects• Sort objects• Filter objects• Display a single object• Support events: beforeInsert, beforeUpdate, afterInsert,

beforeDelete, etc…• Export objects• Permission management of objects


IPF Main Features (more...)

• Search• RSS generation• Automatic creation and update of database tables• Objects registry (cache)• Managment of common fields of an object:

– Meta keywords– Mata Description– Short URL– Counter


imBuilding: Module Generation for IPF

• ImpressCMS module allowing easy creation of modules• ImBuilding takes care of:

– Module global information: author, support web site, credits, license, etc...

– Objects definition– Objects fields definition

• When the module is generated, a Zip file is created containing all files of the module

• The module is then usable “out of the box”• Developer can then focus on the important aspects: business

logic, templates, etc...


imBuilding: Module Creation


imBuilding: Module View


imBuilding: Adding an Object


imBuilding: Viewing an Object


imBuilding: Adding a field


To learn more...

http://inboxinternational.comhttp://www.impresscms.org

http://twitter.com/marcanhttp://twitter.com/INBOXintl


Thank you and have a good conference!

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