Xaraya

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Xaraya

• Jonathan Linowes
• Parkerhill Technology Group
• DLS-LUG Presentation
• March 2, 2006

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JSL Background

• Principal, Parkerhill Technology Group, Lyman,
  NH
  
• 25 years entrepreneur, technologist
• Companies Syntrex, Autodesk, Sirlin,
  ComputerVision, Texas Instruments
  
• Education MS, MIT Media Lab BA, Syracuse
  University
  
• Boards Software Assoc of NH (SwANH), Amoskaeg
  Business Incubator, North Country Council

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Content Management

• Separates content from presentation
• Content maintained in database
• Web based configuration and maintenance
• opensourceCMS.com demos
• PHP-Nuke, Postnuke, Xoops, PLone, Drupal, Mambo,
  WordPress, etc.
  
• cmswatch.com MS Sharepoint, Documentum, etc.

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Example Applications

• simple static document website
• dynamic database driven community site
• content management system or news publishing
  site
  
• your personal blog
• company intranet
• shopping portal
• specialized industry site with custom built
  Xaraya applications
  
• an enterprise level multisite and multilanguage
  deployment
  

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My Search for a PHP CMS

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What is Xaraya

• Cost effective, rapid and flexible website
  development
  
• Xaraya is an extensible, Open Source web
  application framework written in PHP and licensed
  under the GNU General Public License. Xaraya
  delivers the requisite infrastructure and tools
  to create custom web applications that include
  fully dynamic multi-platform Content Management
  Solutions (CMS).
• Separate form, function, content, and design with
  on-the-fly extensions

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Advantages of Xaraya

• Easy to install
• Easy to use
• Platform independent
• Built on standards (php,sql,xml)
• Modular
• Extensible

• Flexible
• Scalable
• Secure
• Fast
• Stable
• Managed project
• Active community

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The Xaraya Project

• Fork from PostNuke (Aug 2002)
• 1.0 Release (Nov 2005)
• The Digital Development Foundation owns IP
• Developers, Committers, QA, Translation
• Monotone repository
• Bugzilla
• Documentation project
• www.xaraya.com

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Xaraya Framework

• Well defined core API
• Block Layout templating system
• Hierarchical roles based system for user and
  group management
  
• Plug in events and authentication
• Dynamic Data extends data structures
• Pluggable extensions, with hooks

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Xaraya Core Components

• Admin interface
• ADODB
• API
• AuthSystem
• Base
• BlockLayout
• Blocks System
• Database
• Dynamic Data
• Imports
• Installer

• Mail
• Miscellaneous
• Modules
• Multi-Language
• Multi-Sites
• Performance
• Privileges
• Roles
• Themes
• User System
• WebServices

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Xaraya Modules Types

• Global (e.g. base, blocks, modules, themes)
• Content (e.g. articles, categories, comments)
• Users Groups (privileges, roles)
• Miscellaneous (scheduler, sitetools, tinymce)

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Xaraya Modules (subset)

• Files
• Headlines
• Hitcount
• HTML
• Images
• Julian
• Keywords
• Multisites
• OpenTracker
• Paypal
• Polls
• Ratings
• Recommend
• Search
• SiteContact

• Addressbook
• Authemail
• Articles
• AuthInvision
• AuthLDAP
• Autolinks
• BBCode
• Bible
• BloggerAPI
• Categories
• Censor
• ChangeLog
• Chat
• Comments
• Ebulletin

• SiteTools
• Smiles
• Sniffer
• SoapServer
• Stats
• TinyMCS
• Uploads
• Weather
• Wiki
• Window
• Workflow
• Xarbb
• XarCacheManager
• Xarpages

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Articles Module

• Predefined Publication Types
• News
• Documents
• Reviews
• FAQs
• Pictures
• Weblinks
• Quotations
• Downloads
• And/or Make your own
• Override templates view, summary, display
• Extend with Dynamic Data
• Hook other modules e.g. categories, comments,
  hitcount, html, autolinks, search, changelog,
  etc.
  
• Admin config module alias, start view, sort
  order, etc.
  
• Blocks featureditems, topitems, random

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Themes

• Default theme Xaraya_Classic
• Template overrides
• Css stylesheets
• Java scripts
• Utility themes print, rss, atom

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File Structure

• webroot
• index.php
• Includes/
• Modules/
• Articles
• Xaradmin/
• Xaradminapi/
• Xarblocks/
• Xardocs/
• Xarimages/
• Xarproperties/
• Xarstyles/
• Xartemplates/
• Blocks/
• Admin-main.xd
• User-main.xd
• Xaruser/
• Main.php
• Xaruserapi/

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Xaraya Security

• Roles
• Create new users and groups
• Registration validation, messaging, etc
• Assign privileges
• Special roles myself, administrator
• Privileges
• Permissions for access to areas of site
• Predefined privileges during install for type of
  site
  
• Levels none, readonly, edit, add, delete, admin
  
  
• Fine granularity module, component, item,
  instance
  
• RFC 0030 Xaraya Security System
• Authentication
• Plug in auth modules authsystem, authinvision,
  authldap, authsso
  

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Block Layout (BL)

• Xml compliant templating language
• .xd (system template) vs .xt (override)
• Block layout tags
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• Operators eq, lt, gt
• RFC-10 Block Layout (Xaraya Theme System)

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Xaraya Demo

• Default Install
• Static HTML Site
• Content managed news site
• Community site
• Web applications

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Xaraya Community

• www.xaraya.com
• Forums
• Newsgroups
• IRC
• Others web sites, blogs

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Jonathan_at_parkerhill.com

• Jonathan Linowes
• Parkerhill Technology Group
• 286 Parker Hill Road
• Lyman, NH 03585
• 603-838-2884
• www.parkerhill.com