building a full-flavored event site in 5 minutes
DESCRIPTION
Or a few minutes more. We are pleased to announce the new CultureFeed 3.x, a module suite to build an event site based on events gathered in an external backoffice "outdatabase" (UiTdatabank). Use our framework to build a very simple event site or a very complex site, like UiTinVlaanderen.be. CultureFeed 3.x contains: - a connector to our event API (with the new SOLR API) - a connector to our social API (like, reviews, attend, ...) - integration with oAuth service provider UiTiD "outid" - different UI options - SEO optimalisations - views integration - a devel module - option to create, update and delete events - option to integrate an RFID loyalty program (in development) En plus, to make life easy on you we developed a Drupal profile, CultureFeed kickstart, which sets up a site with basic functions in 5 minutes, check out http://github.com/cultuurnet. In this session Sven Houtmeyers (CultuurNet) focusses on all the features, while Kristof Coomans (kañooh) will dive into the technical aspects, why we use Symphony, Guzzle and Composer, why we build PHP libraries, and how we interface with the SOLR API. The session will be ended with a demo of the CultureFeed Kickstart Drupal profile.TRANSCRIPT
BUILDING A FULL-FLAVORED EVENT SITE IN 5 MINUTES
Drupalcamp Leuven - 15/9/2013
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CultuurNet Vlaanderen is looking for a...
DRUPAL FRONT END DEVELOPER- 1 jaar+ experience in Drupal Front End webdevelopment
- 2 jaar+ experience in algemeen Front End webdevelopment
More info http://www.cultuurnet.be/zoekt-fe-developer - [email protected] after this session
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Sven HoutmeyersTeam Leader developers at CultuurNetTechnical lead for all our Drupal Project@[email protected]
Contents
1. Introduction2. Technical dive into the setup by Kristof3. More features & demo of our Drupal install profile
Whoami?
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CultuurNet (CultureNet):“relationship agency” that mediates between events and participants
Mission: “(more) people (more) enthusiasm (more) culture”
Who are we?
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through broad cultural communication and marketing
How we do this?
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First of all we aggregate all cultural and other events
How we do this?
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First of all we aggregate all cultural and other events
How we do this?
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First of all we aggregate all cultural and other events
How we do this?
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Products?
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Products?
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Products?
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Products?
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Products?
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Products?
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Products?
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Previous situation
So how we do this?
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API API
The events The participants
CnAPI (CultuurNet API)Module Suite
CultureFeedModule Suite
Drupal
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Previous situation
So how we do this?
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API API
The events The participants
CnAPI (CultuurNet API)Module Suite
CultureFeedModule Suite
Drupal
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New situation
So how we do this?
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APIEvents + participants
CultureFeedModule Suite
Drupal
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New situation
So how we do this?
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APIEvents + participants
CultureFeedModule Suite
Drupal
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And who is doing this?
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?8 developers, pm, solution architects, etc
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And who is doing this?
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?8 developers, pm, solution architects, etc
@stalski @zuuperman
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And who is doing this?
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?8 developers, pm, solution architects, etc
@stalski @zuuperman @kristofcoomans (cyberwolf)
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freelancer since beginning of the year (2DotsTwice)
Whoami?
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custom search solution, exposed over HTTP
did not allow for more complex, composite queries
example: give me all eventswith minimum age 3 in a range of 30 kilometers from Herent- OR -with the theme ‘music’ in a range of 60 kilometers from Herent
limited faceting support, needs a second HTTP request
back in time: search API v1
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PHP client library: non-existing
logic stuck in a Drupal module (cnapi), hardly reusable outside of Drupal
back in time: search API v1
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based on Apache Solr
•REST-like HTTP API•based on Apache Lucene•faceting•spellcheck
on top of that
•OAuth•custom business logic
search API v2
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PHP client library: modern architecture and approach
use existing tools and libraries
•Composer•Guzzle•Symfony Event Dispatcher
search API v2
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composer.json in project root
basic usage
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run ‘composer install’
require composer autoloader in your project, for example in sites/.../settings.php
basic usage
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basic usage
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basic usage
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basic usage
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basic usage: filter query
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basic usage: filter query
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modular HTTP client library for PHP
used by Drupal 8, Amazon SDK, ...
many plugins: OAuth, logging
supports JAVA-style multivalued query string parameters:
PHP: http://example.com/index.php?param1[]=foo¶m1[]=bar
JAVA: http://example.com/index.php?param1=foo¶m1=bar
Guzzle
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Guzzle: logging
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Guzzle: logging
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faceted search
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faceted search
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culturefeed_agendaculturefeed_develculturefeed_mailingculturefeed_messagesculturefeed_pagesculturefeed_searchculturefeed_search_uiculturefeed_search_viewsculturefeed_socialculturefeed_uiculturefeed_userpoints_uientry_api_ui
The modules...
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culturefeed_search
culturefeed_search_ui
culturefeed_agenda
Functionality for events (new SOLR search API)
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implements search library imports taxonomy (drush)autosuggests
search blocks, facets & results
detail pages of events and locations
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Functionality for profiles (UiTiD - "outid" API)
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culturefeed_ui all user / profile blocks and pages
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Integration with social features
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culturefeed_social all ‘social’ features: likes, comments, attends, notifications, etc
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Views integration
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culturefeed_search_views
select some fields and add filters and sorts
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Other new modules
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culturefeed_pages
culturefeed_messages
culturefeed_userpoints_ui
user can create a page (locations, performers, families, schools, ...)
send / receive messages
collect userpoints and claim promotions
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SEO optimalisations
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- NOINDEX-strategy
- URL-rewriting (slugs)- XML Sitemap- Breadcrumbs- Page title- Document outline- In progress
More info @lukdens
“Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on ...”
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Devel module
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Performance site = performance API (+/-)
Logs:- requests to SOLR- requests to UiTiD
Threshold > watchdog
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Next steps: CRUD on events
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Functions to do a CRUD on events are already in library, but we build a form to create, update and delete events in our UiTdatabank as well.
entry_api_ui (still some issues)
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Next steps: integration of RFID loyalty program
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UiTPAS, in development, release end of this year (for muntpunt.be - Brussels).
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Other todo’s
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- Remove all non-generic theming and create a subtheme for bootstrap
- Documentation...
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CultuurNet Vlaanderen is looking for a...
DRUPAL FRONT END DEVELOPER- 1 jaar+ experience in Drupal Front End webdevelopment
- 2 jaar+ experience in algemeen Front End webdevelopment
More info http://www.cultuurnet.be/zoekt-fe-developer - [email protected]
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DEMO
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- shell script: - downloads dependencies (symfony, guzzle, libraries) - install core and some contrib modules - install culturefeed module suite - download taxonomy terms (drush) - create an install profile
https://github.com/cultuurnet/culturefeed-kickstart
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