Accessing Magnolia CMS from PHP

Jackalope and the PHP Content Repository

Housekeeping

• How to post questions
• Webinar recording and slides
• Contacting us
• Hashtags
• #magnolia_cms
• #phpcr

Agenda

• Introduction
• PHPCR
• Integration with Magnolia
• Q & A

Grégory Joseph

• Software engineer at Magnolia
• Contributed Magnolia/PHPCR integration
• @hpesojg

David Buchmann

• Software engineer at Liip
• Core contributor to the PHPCR project
• @dbu

About JCR/PHPCR

• Content Repository is a way to decouple storage logic from application logic
• Write applications once, switch storage backends
• Do not re-invent the content storage wheel
• PHPCR is JCR translated to PHP, part of the upcoming JCR 2.1

Data in a CMS is mostly unstructured

RDBMS are not a good fit, hurray for NoSQL

CMS often organize content as a tree/graph

Most NoSQL not a good fit, hurray for Graph DBs

CMS should be able to store content versions