Common JavaScript layer for modern CMSs, powered by RDFa and Aloha Editor

1. Create

2. Henri
Bergius
Microblogs: @bergie
http://bergie.iki.fi

3. “Build a CMS,
no forms allowed”

4. Entering editing state

5. Editing and saving

6. Drag-and-drop images
Drop image, choose
variant to use

7. History and workflows
Workflows that are available for this
content item

8. CMS interface should not
affect the page contents

9. CMS interface should not
affect the page contents

10. SEO is also important

11. SEO is also important
Type of the object to make editable, in
this case a “post”

12. SEO is also important
Identifier of the editable object

13. SEO is also important
Object property to make editable

14. How about adding stuff?

15. Never lose content

16. Never lose content

17. Monolithic approach Decoupled approach
Web Editing Tool
Content
Management
System
Web Framework
Database Content Repository

18. Layers of Midgard Create
jQuery Aloha Backbone.js
Application Server in PHP
Midgard MVC for PHP Zeta Comp.
Midgard2 Content Repository
RDBMS

19. ...and in your CMS too?
jQuery Aloha Backbone.js
Some backend that can do JSON and REST
Midgard MVC for PHP Zeta Comp.
Midgard2 Content Repository
RDBMS

20. Web Editing Tool
HTML+RDFa JSON-LD over REST
Web Framework

21. VIE: Shared JavaScript CMS API?

22. Got Linux?
$ sudo apt-get install php5-midgard2
$ sudo pear channel-discover pear.indeyets.pp.ru
$ sudo pear install indeyets/midgardmvc_installer
$ midgardmvc install http://bit.ly/hV05pi midgard
$ ./midgard/run

23. Relevant technologies
● VIE
https://github.com/bergie/VIE
● AppServer-in-PHP
https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php
● PHP Content Repository
http://phpcr.github.com/
● Aloha Editor
http://aloha-editor.org/