redCORE: an abstracted development layer for Joomla! - JWC14

redCOREan abstracted development layer

for Joomla!

Tito Alvarez

• 14 years experience in PHP

• 8 years experience in Joomla!

• Backender / Frontender / Commercial templates / System

Integrator / SysAdmin / Cleaning and stuff when needed

• Worked in banking, software pre-sales, Main Developer at

Joomlashack

• Currently Senior Developer at redCOMPONENT

Agenda

• What is redCORE?

• Features:

basic and extended

• Demo

• Roadmap

• Collaboration

• Q&A

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What is redCORE?

• Abstracted development

layer: not a final extension

by itself

• Provide backward

compatibility

• Avoid repetitive tasks like

custom inputs or layouts

• Framework for powerful,

enterprise-size applications

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Yet another framework?

• Stop reinventing the

wheel

• No convention over

configuration

• No need to rework for

various Joomla! versions

• It extends Joomla!

classes

Native features

• Works in multiple Joomla! versions

• Layouts

• Improved form fields

• Smart and integrated installer

• Frontend libraries

Multiple Joomla! versions

• Extends Joomla!

classes

• Specific methods

for each Joomla!

version

Layouts

• JLayout: repeat portions of views between code

• Only available for Joomla! 3.1+

• redCORE makes it available for 2.5+

Layouts example

myextension/layouts/helloworld.php

Joomla! way: JLayout

redCORE: RLayout

Improved fields

• Country list

• Currency list

• Date picker

• etc

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Installer

One package to install them all:

• Component

• Libraries

• Media

• Modules

• Plugins

• Templates

• Translations

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Package validation

• PHP version

• MySQL version

• PHP packages (GD,

SimpleXML)

• Extra validations

installing complementary extensionsin the extension XML manifest file

adding validationsin the extension XML manifest file

running the installer

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Frontend Libraries

• Bootstrap

• Checkbox

• Timepicker

• Flexslider

• Font-awesome

• jQuery

• jQuery-UI

• Select2

including frontend librariesin your code

decide which will be includedin the frontend of your site

Extended features

• Translation for extensions content

• Built-in web services

• OAuth2

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Translations for extension content

• Content elements like:

• E-commerce products

• Content articles

• etc

• Easy setup

• Optimized for large

databases

• Joomla! safe and compatible

method

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Benefits of redCORE for translation

• Does not duplicate content

• Extends single tables with

separate fields

• Original value change

notification

• Easy setup through

redCORE backend

• Manifest files compatible

with Falang and Joomfish

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Translation done right and fast

• It sets up new tables

and Foreign Keys for

the translated tables

• Does not duplicate the

whole table but just

translatable fields

• Option for triggers if not

using InnoDB

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Built-in web services

• Server setup

• RESTful interface

• HAL (Hypertext

Application Language)

• JSON or XML formats

• Authentication through

Joomla! or oAuth2

Easy set up of web services

• Through XML manifest

file

• Allows versioning of

web services - for

backward compatibility

• Specification of REST

methods and custom

actions

Auto-documented

• Documentation is

generated automatically

oAuth2 server

• Deploys a

server to

avoid

username/pa

ssword for

API

• Individual

client

creation

oAuth2 client creation

• Ability to define grants

and scopes

• Match client to some

Joomla User

redCORE demo

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Roadmap

• Payment plugins

• redCORE extension

manager

• Improved ACL

• Selenium testing

integration

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Collaboration

• redCORE is open source

• Github:https://github.com/redCOMPONENT-

COM/redCORE

• Documentation:http://redcomponent-com.github.io/

Q&A

Thank You