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2010 FSOSS Symposium

Introduction & Installation of ImpressCMSSteve Kenow

RAD with IPF on ImpressCMS 1.2Marc-Andr LanciaultINBOX International inc.

During this workshop, we'll take you through the background of ImpressCMS, help you install it, explain some of the strengths of ImpressCMS and show you a module that you can use to create the basis for your own custom module.

INBOX International inc.Founded in 2003

PHP/MySQL Web Development

XOOPS / ImpressCMS / Wordpress / LAMP Expertise

Team of 15 people all around the world: USA, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, England, Spain

Clients:All around the world

Small and large companies

Marc-Andr Lanciault

Steve Kenow

1st computer was an Apple IIe.

believes there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.

has a great desire to learn and wants to continuously improve

regularly examines his thought processes and personal experiences to understand better.

likes to take apart, then study processes, ideas, problems, solutions, mechanisms, or plans.

can quickly spot relevant patterns and issues.

Other.

A lot of resources are available around the web to learn more about the big 3, less are available for other interesting, but less known, open source products. FSOSS is an excellent opportunity to share some of that knowledge

According to Ohloh.net: Very large, active development team.

Over the past twelve months, 26 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.'www.ohloh.net/p/impresscms

Some interesting numbers

As of 25 October 2010, 20308 commits were made in the ImpressCMS SVN

This is more than 500 commits per month!

30 September 2010: publication of the 35rd release of ImpressCMS: ImpressCMS 1.2.3 RC

sourceforge.net/projects/impresscms/

Awards

November 11, 2009: ImpressCMS wins Most Promising Open Source CMS Packt Awards

October 30, 2008: ImpressCMS wins 3rd place in Most Promising Open Source CMS Packt Awards

www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners

Developed with

PHP

MySQL

Smarty

jQuery

Runs on Linux and Windows

Community Management System

History

PHPNuke

NukeAddons

MyPHPNuke

myPHPNuke SE

XOOPS 1.x

XOOPS 2.0.17

ImpressCMS

Like many other open source projects, ImpressCMS has a shared history with many other projects PHP Nuke has spawned quite a few other content management systems, and ImpressCMS is one of the latest.

User-centric

Connect and login with OpenID, LDAP or local database authentication

Customizable user profiles and registration

Personal notifications and bookmarks

Global commenting built in

Global search feature

International and multi-lingual

To build on some things the developers of ImpressCMS feel quite strongly about, the focus is very user-centric.

There are different authentication methods for user logins to minimize the number of logins a user has to manage.

Every application of ImpressCMS will have different requirements for user profiles a module that provides customizable profiles is part of the core distribution. If you have simpler profile needs, you can use the basic core user manager.

Search is often more important to a user than site architecture the core search feature works across all modules that have it enabled.

Easy extensions

Easily ExtendedUse one of over 500 modules or

Create one of your own with imBuilding

Easy to Layout and ThemeSmarty Template Engine

Customizable content areas

Getting ready to install

Easy to Administer

Highly configurable user profiles

Customize content for different groups and users

WYSIWYG editors supported and included

Centralized image management

Security P@r@n01@

Critical files not accessible in browser

Multiple forms of encryption

User input filtered by HTML Purifier

Access controlled by group permissions system

Getting Ready to Install

Windows http://www.impresscms.org/uploads/impresscms-win32-fsoss2010.zip

Linuxhttp://www.impresscms.org/uploads/impresscms_lampp_fsoss.tar.gz

Extracting the Packages - Windows

Unzip to [drive letter]:\

Launch [drive letter]:\xampp\xampp-control.exe

Start Apache and MySQL

Open your browser and go to http://localhost/fsoss2010/

Extracting the Packages - Linux

Save the package to your Home folder

Open a Terminal window and extract the files to /opt (will need to do as system user (su)

After the files extract, start the services by typing 'sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start'

Open your browser and go to http://localhost/fsoss2010/

Installation

Critical Step: File and Folder Permissions

The demo has all the permissions properly set

The trust_path is outside the web root

Critical Step: Database Details

You may need to create the database and db user through your cPanel

Select Modules

If you have already added modules to your web server, you can install them at the same time as the main application

Success!

What is IPF

ImpressCMS Persistable Framework

Comes from SmartObject module

Natively implemented in ImpressCMS 1.1

Framework allowing rapid module development for ImpressCMS

IPF Goals

Address 80% of common tasks of most module

Enable easy and rapid development

Reuse code wherever possible (centralization, easy maintenance, use less resources, etc...)

IPF Main Concepts

DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)

KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid)

Convention over Configuration

IPF Main features

Create, edit and delete objects

List, Sort, 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)

Management of common fields of an object:Meta keywords

Meta Description

Short URL

Counter

ImBuilding module

ImpressCMS module allowing easy creation of modulesModule 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

CMS Expo Chicago 2010facebook.com/ImpressCMS

twitter.com/impresscms

ImpressCMS.orgcommunity.impresscms.org

To learn more...

ImpressCMShttp://www.impresscms.orghttp://twitter.com/impresscms

INBOX International inchttp://inboxinternational.comhttp://twitter.com/INBOXintlhttp://facebook.com/INBOXIntl

To learn more...

Steve KenowImpressCMS Managementhttp://twitter.com/skenowhttp://facebook.com/skenow

Marc-Andr LanciaultCEO, INBOX International inc.http://twitter.com/marcanhttp://facebook.com/malanciaulthttp://www.linkedin.com/in/marcan