PHPBenelux Conference 2014: Getting started with content management in Symfony2 - 3 hour workshop

24.1.2014
Conference: PHPBenelux Conference 2014, 24-25.1.2014
Title: Getting started with content management in Symfony2
Links: Tutorial Code, joind.in

he Content Management Framework (CMF) is a set of building blocks for content management in Symfony2. You can use just parts of it to add some content management to your Symfony2 project, or use the whole stack to build customized CMS applications for specific needs.

In this workshop, we do a tour through the CMF. We will look at the existing functionality and I will do live-coding to implement additional features. This will get you a feel for how things work.

I will cover at least the following subjects:

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Symfony Community Awards

29.12.2013
During the SymfonyCon in Warsaw, Poland, there was also the first Symfony award ceremony. I was deemed worthy to get the community award for the "Best Bundle of the year". It is a great thing to hear that other people appreciate what you do, so this makes me really happy.

Whats more, the Symfony Content Management Framework also got an award for being the best Symfony Open-Source application of 2013.

Congratulations to all the award winners! And thanks to all the others who do great efforts on Symfony that did not get an award this time - keep it going!

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SymfonyCon Warsaw: Symfony2 Content Management in 40 minutes

12.12.2013
Conference: SymfonyCon Warsaw, 12-13.12.2013
Title: Symfony2 Content Management in 40 minutes
Links: Slides, joind.in

The Symfony Content Management Framework provides a set of bundles to quickly add content management to your Symfony2 projects. It provides common features like editable menus, route and content. The CMF 1.0 has been released in september, ready to be used productive. I will show you how to start using the CMF in a project and also show advanced features like the transparent multilanguage handling.

The tutorial is available as a series of pull requests on a tutorial repository:
https://github.com/dbu/conference-tutorial/pulls?direction=asc

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PHP Content Repository: Porting a Java standard to PHP

18.10.2013
Conference: Codemotion Madrid, 18-19.10.2013
Title: PHP Content Repository: Porting a Java standard to PHP
Links: Slides

PHPCR is an API for hierarchical data, handling both structured and unstructured content. It provides APIs for permission management, versioning, locking, search with an SQL-like syntax and so on. Several major frameworks and CMS (Typo3, Drupal, Symfony2, Midgard, Nooku und eZ publish) support PHPCR or are in discussion whether to use it as common standard for storing their data.

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Abstracting HTTP Clients in PHP - article in PHP Architect magazine

1.4.2013
Publication: Web & PHP magazine
Title: The PHP Content Repository
Abstract: PHPCR provides a rich API to store, retrieve and manipulate content along with its metadata. The content repository provides a higher level abstraction than a classical database, focusing on the problem domain of Content Management. PHPCR is a port of the Java Content Repository specification JCR to PHP and will be part of the next release of the JCR standard.

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PHPCR and Magnolia CMS: Bridging the PHP and Java Worlds

14.2.2013

Back a few years ago when I started the PHP content repository PHPCR and the Jackalope project, one of the goals was to integrate between PHP applications and Java Content Management Systems. Last year we did a hackday with gregory from Magnolia CMS where we integrated PHP Jackalope with the Java MagnoliaCMS. On 28 Feb 2013, I will present the topic as a MagnoliaCMS webinar entitled "Connect PHP Applications with Magnolia CMS through PHPCR".

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