Innomatic è la piattaforma open source per creare applicazioni multi-tenant e piattaforme SaaS in PHP.

1. Building Multi-Tenant
and SaaS products in PHP

2. What is Innomatic?
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3. First of all: what is NOT Innomatic?
Innomatic is NOT a framework like Laravel or Symfony
– in fact, we are progressively migrating to a system
based on Symfony components!
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4. So, what really is Innomatic?
Innomatic is an open source platform for:
developing, deploying and managing
Multi-Tenant and SaaS web applications in PHP
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5. Building multi-tenant apps
and SaaS products in
Innomatic
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6. Building new SaaS: Classic vs Innomatic approach
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Go live!
Classic life cycle
Innomatic life cycle
Learn and
configure
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+ time
+ budget
to develop & market the
app
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Go live!
(late…)
Develop infrastructure
(multi tenancy, build system,
billing tools, CRM, etc.)
- Time
- budget
to develop & market the
app
Opt.: Innomedia CMF for web
sites
+ Innowork BAF for intranets

7. Innomatic Layers
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Debug
Tenant Web Apps
HTTP Kernel File system Routing
Cache Localization Logging Web servicesSymfony
Components based
deploy and tasks
AppCentral
Root Desktop Tenant Desktop
Panels / Web User
Interface
Dependency
Injection
Database / ORM Templating Class Loader
Multi tenancy
Applications
container
Tenant Users /
RBAC
PackagesComposer
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Innomedia CMF Innowork BAF SaaS tools
(billing, CRM, tickets, …)
Other major
Frameworks
and tools
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8. Multi-Tenancy in Innomatic
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Innomatic strategy:
Multi-Tenant code + Single Tenant databases

9. Frustrated Sysadmin/Developer
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10. Innomatic = Innovation + AUTOMATIC
Innomatic handles this for you
Deployment and update tasks are
automatized by Innomatic for each tenant
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11. An Innomatic application is a set of components of the types supported
by Innomatic or other Innomatic based applications:
• PHP classes,
• database tables,
• catalogues of localization strings,
• dashboard widgets,
• desktop UI elements,
• traybar items,
• maintenance tasks,
• etc.
Structure of an Innomatic application
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12. This is the core of Innomatic automation at runtime.
Each component type defines the operation to be executed
in the following phases:
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Application:
• Deploy inside Innomatic
• Upgrade
• Undeploy
Tenant:
• Enable component to the tenant
• Upgrade component in the tenant
• Disable component from the
tenant

13. <?xml version='1.0'?>
<application>
<definition>
<idname>example-basic-app</idname>
<release>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<date>2014/10/07</date>
<changesfile>CHANGES</changesfile>
</release>
<description>Innomatic example: basic application</description>
<category>examples</category>
<iconfile></iconfile>
<dependencies>
<dependency>innomatic[6.4.0]</dependency>
</dependencies>
<options>
<!-- <option></option> -->
</options>
The application.xml file 1/3 – Meta data part 1
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14. <legal>
<author>
<name>Innomatic Company</name>
<email>info@innomatic.io</email>
<web>http://www.innomatic.io/</web>
</author>
<copyright>Copyright (c) 2014 Innomatic Company</copyright>
<license>New BSD</license>
<licensefile>LICENSE</licensefile>
</legal>
<support>
<supportemail>support@innomatic.io</supportemail>
<bugsemail>bugs@innomatic.io</bugsemail>
<maintainer>
<name>Alex Pagnoni</name>
<email>alex.pagnoni@innomatic.io</email>
</maintainer>
</support>
</definition>
The application.xml file 2/3 – Meta data part 2
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15. <components>
<tempdir name="example-basic-app" />
<domaingroup name="examples"
catalog="example-basic-app::misc" />
<domaintable name="example_basic_table"
file="example_basic_table.xml" />
<domainpanel name="basicapp"
catalog="example-basic-app::misc" category="examples" />
<catalog name="example-basic-app" />
<class name="examples/basic/BasicClass.php" />
</components>
</application>
The application.xml file 3/3 – Components
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You can also use
Composer for your
classes

16. You can also declare your dependencies to external packages
using Composer: you only have to add your composer.json
inside your application package.
Since Innomatic is a platform and you deploy applications at
runtime, Innomatic provides a recursive Composers
dependencies feature with multiple composer.json from different
Innomatic applications.
Including classes and packages with Composer
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17. Applications may also define their own component types that can be used by
other applications.
Extending Component Types
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18. Normally Innomatic desktop applications are built up
of various panels which provide an USER
INTERFACE inside the Innomatic desktop.
Panels & Panel Groups
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19. Declaring a Panel inside application.xml
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<tempdir name="example-basic-app" />
<domaingroup name="examples"
catalog="example-basic-app::misc" />
<domaintable name="example_basic_table"
file="example_basic_table.xml" />
<domainpanel name="basicapp"
catalog="example-basic-app::misc" category="examples" />
<catalog name="example-basic-app" />
<class name="examples/basic/BasicClass.php" />

20. class BasicappPanelViews extends InnomaticDesktopPanelPanelViews
{
public function update($observable, $arg = '’) {}
public function beginHelper() {}
public function endHelper() {}
public function viewDefault($eventData)
{
$this->tpl->set(’title', ‘Panel title’);
}
}
Panel views – View code example
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21. class BasicappPanelActions extends InnomaticDesktopPanelPanelActions {
public function __construct(InnomaticDesktopPanelPanelController $controller) {
parent::__construct($controller);
}
public function beginHelper() {}
public function endHelper() {}
public function executeDeleteItem($eventData) {
$this->dataAccess->execute(‘DELETE FROM my_items WHERE ID=‘.$eventData[‘id’]);
}
}
Panel actions – Code example
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22. <form>
<name>item</name>
<args>
<action><?=$editAction?></action>
</args>
<children>
<grid>
<children>
<label row="0" col="0" halign="right">
<args>
<label><?=$nameLabel?></label>
</args>
</label>
<string row="0" col="1">
<name>name</name>
<args>
<disp>action</disp>
<size>30</size>
<value><?=$nameValue?></value>
</args>
</string>
Web User Interface (WUI)
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23. Web User Interface example
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24. Some Real Life Tenant
Applications
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25. Tenant Desktops and Web Apps
Tenants have 2 types of interfaces:
Tenant Desktop
A web desktop with a standard GUI for backoffice applications accessible via a
login panel.
e.g. intranet, enterprise applications
Web App
An interface for external web applications with a chained router
e.g. public web sites, extranets
The Tenant Desktop and the Web App share the same database and can interact
(e.g. you may have a CMS inside the Desktop for managing the Web App
content).
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26. Tenant Desktop Dashboard
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27. Some applications built with Innowork: Tasks
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28. Tickets
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29. Kanban
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30. A CMS built with Innomedia CMF- 1/3
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31. Innomedia – 2/3
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32. Innomedia – 3/3
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33. Multi-Tenant deployable web sites with Innomedia
An example: Winenot
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34. Winenot SaaS provider: applications
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35. Winenot tenants examples
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36. Winenot tenants with different web site themes
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37. Customizing look for SaaS providers:
Desktop Themes
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38. <wuitheme name="flattheme" file="flattheme_wuitheme.ini"
catalog="innomatic::flattheme" />
<wuicolorsset name="flattheme"
file="flattheme_wuicolorsset.ini”
catalog="innomatic::flattheme" />
<wuistyle name="flattheme" file="flattheme_wuistyle.ini"
catalog="innomatic::flattheme" />
<wuiiconsset name="subway" file="subway_wuiiconsset.ini"
catalog="innomatic::flattheme" />
Declaring new themes in application.xml
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39. Customizing look: Saas Provider settings
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40. Simple customization example
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41. Another desktop customization example
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42. Managing Tenants
and Applications
from the Root Desktop
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43. Managing Tenants
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44. Creating a Tenant
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45. Managing Applications
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46. Enabling an application to a tenant
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47. Updating / Downgrading Applications
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48. You can also do it inside PHP and CLI scripts
Creating a tenant from CLI:
php core/scripts/tenant.php create <tenant_name>
<description> <admin_password>
Deploying an application from CLI:
php core/scripts/application.php deploy
<application_archive.tgz>
Enabling an application to a tenant from CLI:
php core/scripts/tenant.php appenable <tenantname>
<appname>
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49. Thanks!
Free Innomatic
Basic Developer
training slides for
Cloud Conf
attendees here:
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http://cloudconf.innomatic.io