The Original Hypertext Preprocessor

-THE ORIGINAL-HYPERTEXTPREPROCESSOR Drew McLellan edgeofmyseat.com grabaperch.com PHP Community Conference 22nd April 2011

EVERY LINE OF CODE -CAN HAVE A-DIRECT IMPACT ON USERS

DESIGNINGSOFTWARE - FOR -HUMANS

FUNCTIONALITY -IS NOT -ENOUGH

REWIND

DUDE!LIKE WHAT ABOUTDRUPAL?

“With Wordpress (don’teven get me started onDrupal), the learning curvewas very high, requiring myclients to learn about postsversus pages versuscustom post types.”

D O Z E N S O FOPTIONSMILLIONS OFUSERS

THERES ROOM - IF YOU CAN BE -DIFFERENT

L I G H T W E I G H TPHP CMSFOR SMALL WEBSITES

LISTEN UP!CLASSIN SESSION

- THE MOST -DIFFICULTPROBLEMS - ARE THE -WET ONES

Support willkick your ass.Jason Fried, 37signalshttp://www.extractable.com/blog/?p=58

Helpspot really savedour ass when it cameto support.Todd Dominey, SlideShowProhttp://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/24

SUPPORTINVOLVES - A LOT OF -ASSES

MANYCUSTOMERS AREINEXPERIENCED

THEY NEEDA LOT OFSUPPORT

EACH LICENSE SOLD30 MINUTESOF SUPPORT TIME

- FIND WAYS TO -REDUCESUPPORTREQUESTS

EVERY REQUEST SHOULD BEUNIQUE

SUPPORTYOUROWNS OFT W A R E

- WHEN -WILL THISFAIL?

ALL CODE BREAKS.GREAT CODEBREAKS WELL

NOT ALLATTEMPTSARE SUCCESSFUL

SPEED OF RESPONSE IS THE MOSTIMPORTANT T H I N G

TECHNICALPROBLEMS - ARE -DIFFICULT TOO

PHP5AS STANDARD

WE WOULDLOVE- TO M OVE T O -PHP5.3

THE FAILEDPROMISE OFSQLITE

SCHEMALESSSTRUCTURED DATA

!<perch:content!!!type=”text”!!!id=”heading”!!!label=”Main heading”!!!required=”true” />

TABLE OFKEY-VALUE PAIRS - OR - BIG BLOB OF JSON

TABLE OFKEY-VALUE PAIRS

SCALES UPWELL CAN BEFILTERED WITHSQL

- REQUIRES -HOUSEKEEPING INEFFICIENT FOR SMALL VALUES

BIG BLOB OFJSON

STOREANY SHAPE DATA IN ONE ROW EXTREMELY SIMPLE

CONTENT HAS TO BEFILTERED IN PHP NATIVE JSON LIBRARIES ARE NOT YET UNIVERSAL

CREATE TABLE `perch_contentItems` ( `contentID` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `contentKey` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT , `contentPage` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT *, `contentHTML` longtext NOT NULL, `contentNew` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, `contentTemplate` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT , `contentMultiple` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `contentAddToTop` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `contentJSON` mediumtext NOT NULL, `contentHistory` mediumtext NOT NULL, `contentOptions` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`contentID`), KEY `idx_key` (`contentKey`), KEY `idx_page` (`contentPage`)) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

SO, UM, HOWSTHATWORKING OUTFOR YOU?

NON-NATIVE JSONIS SLOW

QUERYING ACROSSTABLE COLUMNS - AND -JSON -VALUES IS A -TWO STEP PROCESS

SO WHAT ISGOODABOUT IT?

{! “heading”: “Foo”,! “date”: “2011-04-22 10:00:00”}

[! {! ! “heading”: “Foo”,! ! “date”: “2011-04-22 10:00:00”! },! {! ! “heading”: “Foo”,! ! “date”: “2011-04-22 10:00:00”! }]

[! {! ! “_rev”: 1300447544,! ! “_content”: {! ! ! “heading”: “Bar”,! ! ! “date”: “2011-04-22 10:00:00”! ! }! },! {! ! “_rev”: 1293968747,! ! “_content”: {! ! ! “heading”: “Foo”,! ! ! “date”: “2011-04-22 10:00:00”! ! }! }]

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVEHISTORY STACK

THEORISING IS EASYNOTHING BEATSEXPERIENCE

RUNNING PHPEVERYWHERE IS HARD

WERE USED TOCONTROLLEDPLATFORMS

ALL BETSARE OFF

- CHEAP -HOSTINGIS CHEAP

WINDOWSIS WEIRD

MIGRATINGBETWEENFILESYSTEMS

- NEVER -MIX CASEIN MYSQL TABLE NAMES

- BE -OPINIONATED - BUT NOT -DICTATORIAL

WYSIWYG - IS -EVIL

But my clientsmust have aneditor like Word!

ITS NOT OUR PLACETO TELL PEOPLEHOW TO WORK

EDIT IN PLACE - IS A - FALSEPROMISE

HELP CUSTOMERSSERVETHEIRCLIENTS

IDENTIFY YOURCUSTOMERSPROBLEMS

CONFIDENCE - IS -EVERYTHING

EVERY FIELD - CAN BE -ANNOTATED

help=”Use theteacher’sinitials fromthe timetable.”

<perch:help>!<p>Confused? Watch!!!this video:</p>!<video>...</video></perch:help>

DRAFTSPREVIEWUNDO

- BE A -MAGICIAN NOT JUSTA DEVELOPER

FUNCTIONALITY -IS NOT -ENOUGH

LEARN TOACCEPTWHEN USERS AREHAVINGTROUBLE

REALLY GREATDEVELOPERSSOLVE PROBLEMS

YOU CANTWINEVERY USER

I love the little cms but the one thing I wasexpecting to get is a license for multiple domain,...if you guys can help with that you will earn a bigcustomer,.. and as of right now I already found 2more cms just like yours at a lower price but whatthey take a away is in the interface design,..(which I could careless about it) but you guys stillmy number 1 option but if you guys can give me abreak on that little part for licensing multipledomains that will be very much appreciated,..

- NOT -EVERYONEWILL GET IT

THANK YOU! Perch is at grabaperch.com Slides: http://lanyrd.com/2011/phpcomcon On most things, I’ am @drewm

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