Joomla! “Joomla! 1.5 status and future” International PHP Conference 2007 Presentation Ludwigsburg, 22 May 2007

International PHP Conference 2007 Presentation

Wilco Jansen Joomla! Core Team Member Development Working Group Coordinator CTO by McNolia.com About Me

Wilco Jansen

Joomla! Core Team Member

Development Working Group Coordinator

CTO by McNolia.com

Presentation Overview The Joomla! project Joomla! 1.5 Architecture and Future

The Joomla! project

Joomla! 1.5 Architecture and Future

The Joomla! project

What is Joomla? Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Joomla! philosophy Rock Solid Architecture Flexibility built on Powerful Frameworks Developers Tools Outstanding User experience International Recognition (50 languages)

Rock Solid Architecture

Flexibility built on Powerful Frameworks

Developers Tools

Outstanding User experience

International Recognition (50 languages)

Joomla! concepts Opensource Freedom Choice Control Fun Ease of use End User Administrator Developer Designers Content Management Keep is small and simple Be flexible and agile Designed to be extendible Use 80/20 rule Reduce choices Barry Swharts : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

Opensource

Freedom

Choice

Control

Fun

Ease of use

End User

Administrator

Developer

Designers

Content Management

Keep is small and simple

Be flexible and agile

Designed to be extendible

Use 80/20 rule

Reduce choices Barry Swharts : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

Joomla! In numbers (general statistics) 110.000 forum users 9442 registered developers * 1648 registered projects * 1677 extensions ( extensions.joomla.org ) 5 TB traffic/month on main websites Alexa rank 497 (20 May 2007) * On joomlacode.org since 10 March 2007

110.000 forum users

9442 registered developers *

1648 registered projects *

1677 extensions ( extensions.joomla.org )

5 TB traffic/month on main websites

Alexa rank 497 (20 May 2007)

* On joomlacode.org since 10 March 2007

www.ohloh.net

Joomla! organisation

The Joomla! project While at time it may appear at times that we do not move fast enough... In a short amount of time we have accomplished a lot! Project history

The Joomla! project Project history 01 September 2005 Joomla! is born 15 September 2005 Joomla! 1.0 released 17 September 2005 Joomla! opens the forge 01 January 2006 Joomla! 1.1 announcement 06 February 2006 Joomla! opens developer network 06 March 2006 Joomla! opens extensions site 12 October 2006 Joomla! 1.5 Beta released 27 October 2006 Joomla! releases official user manual 12 December 2006 Joomla! 1.0.12 released 13 March 2007 Joomla! Opens Gforge (JoomlaCode Launch) 05 May 2007 Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 released

Where are our users located?

Joomla! 1.5 Architecture and Future

Framework principles Pragmatic Programming Concepts Object Oriented API Modularized Design Focused on content management Build for PHP 4 and upwards compatible with PHP 5

Pragmatic Programming Concepts

Object Oriented API

Modularized Design

Focused on content management

Build for PHP 4 and upwards compatible with PHP 5

Framework Concepts Decouple as much as possible Use design patterns where possible Don’t repeat yourself (DRY) Remember the big picture Create declarative interfaces Keep it dry, shy and thell the other guy See http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/may_04_oo1.pdf

Decouple as much as possible

Use design patterns where possible

Don’t repeat yourself (DRY)

Remember the big picture

Create declarative interfaces

Keep it dry, shy and thell the other guy See http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/may_04_oo1.pdf

Joomla! future Joomla! 1.0.x Maintenance mode Joomla! 1.5/6/7 ACL extended J!Package Content versioning Simple workflow Export/import System level tagging All to be determined Joomla! 2.0 Refactory to PHP 5.2+ Remove PHP 4 Legacy and 1.0.x backward compatability Framework level improvements like NBS, Database abstraction, new Database scheme etc.

Joomla! 1.0.x

Maintenance mode

Joomla! 1.5/6/7

ACL extended

J!Package

Content versioning

Simple workflow

Export/import

System level tagging

All to be determined

Joomla! 2.0

Refactory to PHP 5.2+

Remove PHP 4 Legacy and 1.0.x backward compatability

Framework level improvements like NBS, Database abstraction, new Database scheme etc.

Google Summer Of Code Projects 2006 research based Siteman (J!Explorer) Node Based Scheme Extensive ACL Package manager Ajax 2007 pragmatic approach Usable end-result Co-collaboration with other OS projects (mootools and eclipse) 2007 Projects Extending the Nested Sets Model with 'Hardlinked Nested Sets’ Development of Jigg component for Joomla! 1.5 Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework Email Interface for Publishing Semantic Web Integration Geo-component for Joomla! Eclipse Plugin J!Code Joomla 1.5 Forum component General content recommendation component for Joomla

2006 research based

Siteman (J!Explorer)

Node Based Scheme

Extensive ACL

Package manager

Ajax

2007 pragmatic approach

Usable end-result

Co-collaboration with other OS projects (mootools and eclipse)

2007 Projects

Extending the Nested Sets Model with 'Hardlinked Nested Sets’

Development of Jigg component for Joomla! 1.5

Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework

Email Interface for Publishing

Semantic Web Integration

Geo-component for Joomla!

Eclipse Plugin J!Code

Joomla 1.5 Forum component

General content recommendation component for Joomla

Questions?