GETTING STARTED WITH THE JOOMLA! FRAMEWORK

Michael Babker

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OBLIGATORY INTRODUCTION

• IT Specialist in the US Army

•Working with Joomla since 2010

• Enjoys classic video games and taking in the scenery

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THE JOOMLA! FRAMEWORK

•Officially started in January 2013 from Joomla Platform

• Subset of classes powering Joomla CMS - dates to September 2005

• PSR-0 Compliant

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• Tried and tested - Powers 3% of the web

• Easy to get started with

• Integrated third party API support

WHY JOOMLA! FRAMEWORK?

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SAMPLE APPLICATION (SIMPLE)

• Composer install

•MVC & Router

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SAMPLE APPLICATION (SIMPLE)

• Joomla! Framework

• Symfony Http Foundation (Session)

• Twig (Templating)

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Application Structure

ApplicationLogic

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SAMPLE APPLICATION (INTERMEDIATE)

• User authentication via GitHub

• Editing with markItUp! editor

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Application Structure

ApplicationLogic

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• Check user authentication

• Connect to GitHub

• AJAX response

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WHERE ARE WE GOING?

• Package Decoupling

•DI/IOC

• Leverage PHP Community

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ONLINE• Joomla! Framework

• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-framework

• http://joomla.github.io/joomla-framework/

• App Source Code

• https://github.com/davidhurley/framework-app (Simple)

• https://github.com/mbabker/framework-app/tree/intermediate (Intermediate)

• Michael

• http://www.babdev.com/

• https://twitter.com/mbabker

• https://github.com/mbabker

• Session

• http://lanyrd.com/scpbbm

• https://joind.in/8998

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