Fork Present

1. Fork CMS
The user-friendly CMS
2011-06-25 Barcamp Ghent 4

2. Hi! I’m Lester! @ElLesso

3. This is Matthias! @mlitn

4. What is Fork?

5. What is Fork?
Content Management System
Built atop

6. What is Fork?
Not your ordinary CMS
‣ Usability
‣ SEO
‣ Accessibility

7. Developers happy

8. Designers happy

9. Bosses happy

10. Clients happy

11. Technical structure

12. Technical structure
Applications
Frontend
Backend
API

13. Technical structure
Applications
Frontend
‣ Self-explanatory: the website
‣ Pages-driven: executes module-action/-widgets linked to page
‣ http://<site>/page
Backend
API

14. Technical structure
Applications
Frontend
Backend
‣ Self-explanatory: the CMS
‣ Module-driven: executes module-action
‣ http://<site>/private/nl/module/controller?param=val
API

15. Technical structure
Applications
Frontend
Backend
API
‣ XML/JSON REST
‣ Module-driven: executes module-method
‣ http://<site>/api/1.0/?method=module.method&param=val

16. Technical structure
Modules
MVC-inspired
“Controllers”
‣ Actions: 1 per page (route-dependant)
‣ Widgets: * per page

17. Technical structure
Modules - structure
actions
ajax
cronjobs (backend only)
engine
installer (backend only)
js
layout
templates
widgets
widgets

18. Technical structure
Pages

19. Technical structure
Pages

20. Technical structure
Pages

21. Key features

22. Key features
SEO

23. Key features
Search

24. Key features
Translations

25. Key features
Forms

26. Key features
AJAX
‣ Authentication
‣ Data presentation

27. Key features
Cronjobs
‣ Collisions
‣ Commandline vs Apache (fastCGI)

28. Key features
Minify
‣ JS
‣ CSS

29. Key features
Cache
‣ Own output
‣ Labels
‣ Search results
‣ Navigation tree
‣ Compiled templates
‣ ...

30. Core modules

31. Core modules
Analytics

32. Core modules
Newsletters

33. Core modules
Newsletters

34. Core modules
Profiles

35. Core modules
FAQ

36. Core modules
Blog

37. Core modules
Others
‣ Content Blocks
‣ Tags
‣ Location
‣ ...

38. Themes & templates

39. Themes & templates
Themes? Templates?
Template = design of a feature
Theme = collection of templates
All templates can be overwritten!
Spoon template-engine powered

40. Themes & templates
Template engine: logic in your design
‣ Variables
‣ Options
‣ Iterations
‣ Modifiers
‣ ...

41. Titel van de slide
‣ Dit is een eerste lijn over meerde regels uitgeschreven
bij wijze van voorbeeld
‣ Dit is een tweede lijn
‣ Dit is een derde lijn
Templates

42. Fork + you

43. Fork + you
Plans
‣ Installable themes
‣ Installable modules
‣ Hooks
‣ ...
Suggestions?

44. Fork + you
Weekly release
Current: 2.4.0
Super
Major
Minor

45. Titel van de slide
‣ Dit is een eerste lijn over meerde regels uitgeschreven
bij wijze van voorbeeld
‣ Dit is een tweede lijn
‣ Dit is een derde lijn
Website

46. Fork + you
Documentation: W.I.P.
‣ Template engine cheat sheet: 100%
‣ Starter tutorial: 60%
‣ In-depth code coverage like PHP.net: 0%

47. Participate

48. Fork + you
Participate!
‣ Github (https://github.com/forkcms)
‣ IRC (irc.freenode.net#forkcms)
‣ http://forum.fork-cms.com
‣ http://bugtracker.fork-cms.com

49. Questions?

50. www.fork-cms.com
info@fork-cms.com
twitter.com/fork_cms