This is the deck from my talk at JoomlaDay Italia 2012 in Turin. If it is not clear by the slides alone, I'm trying to generate interest and volunteers to see this integrated into the core.

1. Unified Content Model in Joomla 3.0
Mitch Pirtle
Joomladay! 2012
Torino, Italia

2. About me

3. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member

4. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member
• Active FOSS supporter: PHP, Joomla!, Lithium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

5. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member
• Active FOSS supporter: PHP, Joomla!, Lithium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Moved from NYC -> TO in May 2011

6. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member
• Active FOSS supporter: PHP, Joomla!, Lithium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Moved from NYC -> TO in May 2011
• Yes, I’m a New Yorker, I talk fast. Sorry about that.

7. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member
• Active FOSS supporter: PHP, Joomla!, Lithium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Moved from NYC -> TO in May 2011
• Yes, I’m a New Yorker, I talk fast. Sorry about that.
• CTO at Sounday Music: http://www.soundaymusic.com/

8. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member
• Active FOSS supporter: PHP, Joomla!, Lithium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Moved from NYC -> TO in May 2011
• Yes, I’m a New Yorker, I talk fast. Sorry about that.
• CTO at Sounday Music: http://www.soundaymusic.com/
• Nuthin’ but startups. Period.

9. About me
• Joomla! and OSM founder, former OSM board member
• Active FOSS supporter: PHP, Joomla!, Lithium, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Moved from NYC -> TO in May 2011
• Yes, I’m a New Yorker, I talk fast. Sorry about that.
• CTO at Sounday Music: http://www.soundaymusic.com/
• Nuthin’ but startups. Period.
• Skate punk, hardcore bassist, american football coach, dad, husband

10. About this talk

11. About this talk
• Quick state of content in Joomla! 3.0

12. About this talk
• Quick state of content in Joomla! 3.0
• History behind the UCM proposal

13. About this talk
• Quick state of content in Joomla! 3.0
• History behind the UCM proposal
• What UCM means to Joomla!

14. About this talk
• Quick state of content in Joomla! 3.0
• History behind the UCM proposal
• What UCM means to Joomla!
• Current status

15. Let’s Get This Thing Started.

16. Current state of content

17. Current state of content
• If it is content, then it must live in com_content

18. Current state of content
• If it is content, then it must live in com_content
• That means it has to live in the jos_content table in the database

19. Current state of content
• If it is content, then it must live in com_content
• That means it has to live in the jos_content table in the database
• If it doesn’t fit, then it must not be content! Use a component and go
somewhere else:

20. Current state of content
• If it is content, then it must live in com_content
• That means it has to live in the jos_content table in the database
• If it doesn’t fit, then it must not be content! Use a component and go
somewhere else:
• Duplicate structure for new content metadata

21. Current state of content
• If it is content, then it must live in com_content
• That means it has to live in the jos_content table in the database
• If it doesn’t fit, then it must not be content! Use a component and go
somewhere else:
• Duplicate structure for new content metadata
• Duplicate plugins for search, etc.

22. Current state of content
• If it is content, then it must live in com_content
• That means it has to live in the jos_content table in the database
• If it doesn’t fit, then it must not be content! Use a component and go
somewhere else:
• Duplicate structure for new content metadata
• Duplicate plugins for search, etc.
• Duplicate effort for admin interface

23. Late last year...

24. A new Unified Content https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/
joomla-dev-platform/sqdZ0B_WCiQ/
Model, by Louis Landry uuglzpSbf3QJ

25. UCM project site on https://github.com/eBaySF/joomla-platform
GitHub

26. What does that mean again?

27. Your content in Joomla! 3.0
CONTENT

28. Your content with UCM
CONTENT

29. Ok, seriously.

30. What does UCM do to your data model?

31. What does UCM do to your data model?
• Main metadata still lives in jos_content

32. What does UCM do to your data model?
• Main metadata still lives in jos_content
• Additional data can go in a separate table

33. What does UCM do to your data model?
• Main metadata still lives in jos_content
• Additional data can go in a separate table
• Takes advantage of better database acess

34. What does UCM do to your data model?
• Main metadata still lives in jos_content
• Additional data can go in a separate table
• Takes advantage of better database acess
• Leverages JCache so objects can be transparently cached/persisted

35. What does UCM do to your data model?
• Main metadata still lives in jos_content
• Additional data can go in a separate table
• Takes advantage of better database acess
• Leverages JCache so objects can be transparently cached/persisted
• Introduces new methods for access controls

36. What does UCM do to your data model?
• Main metadata still lives in jos_content
• Additional data can go in a separate table
• Takes advantage of better database acess
• Leverages JCache so objects can be transparently cached/persisted
• Introduces new methods for access controls
• You can define new types of content without touching the core

37. Ok, hang on just a second...

38. Huh? Wha?
UCM project site on https://github.com/eBaySF/joomla-platform
GitHub

39. Um, ok, now what?

41. (listens to crickets)

43. Open discussion.

44. Grazie mille!
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• Email: mitch AT spacemonkeylabs.com
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