CMF News Januray 2015
Its quite an exciting time for the CMF, there is talk about the next
generation of Jackalope, the Resource stack, rewriting the
TreeBrowserBundle and true multi-site support.
We also had a CMF hackday in December at the Mayflower offices in Würzburg, Germany and we are
hoping to have another one in the coming months. If you are interested make your self known
on the CMF Mailinglist, otherwise
we will announce it on the @SymfonyCMF Twitter account.
CMF hackday in Würzburg, Germany
Jackalope 2.0
It has been generally agreed that the current Jackalope implementation
could be improved upon, and to this end the architecture should be adapted.
The current Jackalope implementation was originally intended only to be a
client for Apache Jackrabbit, the doctrine-dbal implementation was an
afterthought.
Jackalope will be refactored with the aim of providing a modular framework which
will support multiple native persistence backends (Doctrine DBAL, filesystem, MongoDB) in
addition to support for Jackrabbit.
Modules will also be provided for versioning and search. For versioning there will be support
for GIT, database storage and Jackrabbit. Search modules will initially be provided for
Elastic Search and Zend Lucene.
Work will probably begin at sometime in the second quarter of this year.
Resources
Resources are a new and experimental concept in the CMF. Resources are a
common interface to disparate entities within the system. For example a
resource could represent a file on the local filesystem, a Doctrine Entity
or a PHPCR Node.
The resource stack is built upon Puli.
Two of the greatest apparent benefits will be nice ways to support multiple
sites and dynamic theming.
See this blog
post
for more information.
TreeBrowserBundle
WouterJ has been working on a new tree
browser implementation for the
TreeBrowserBundle.
The trees will be implemented as pure JS adapters to existing libraries.
Data will be retrieved from the
ResourceRestBundle.
The tree packages will be kept in a javascript package manager (e.g.
bower).
As a result the code in the TreeBrowserBundle will be limited to
bootstrapping the adapters.
Integration with the resource API will also enable users to freely mix both
Doctrine ORM resources and PHPCR-ODM resources in the same tree.
SiteContextBundle
dantleech recently started working on a new SiteContextBundle.
All CMS's that support multiple sites will undoubtably have some "site manager" service
which listens to the incoming Request and determines which Site should be "loaded". This decision
will normally be based upon the hostname.
The SiteContextBundle will aim to provide a CMF solution to this problem and also provide an
integration with the SonataAdminBundle.
This bundle will provide the contextual information required by the resource stack to determine where
to locate a sites resources (e.g. the routes, content, blocks, etc.).
Other news
Beta version of PHPCR Shell released
PHPCR Shell Beta 1