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Online Publishing Systems based on PHP New York
PHP Conference Expo 2006, June 16th Guillaume
Jarysta-Dautel, Devolia, Founder CTO
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• Introduction
• A few words about Devolia
• Session summary
• Part 1. Introduction to publishing platforms
• Part 2. PHP as the dedicated language
• Part 3. QA

Introduction
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• Part 1. Introduction to publishing platforms
• What is a publishing platform ?
• It gathers in a single web application every
  tool needed for publishing, from one end to the
  other
• Example basic workflow

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• A step, a tool
• Workflow generator
• Editing and artistic meetings VoIP
• One-click validations, e-mail / SMS / MMS
  notifications
• Advanced Contents Management System
• Contributing and rendering engines
• Print management

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• The workflow generator
• Manages accounts and accesses levels
• Adapts your validation processes
• Defines your publishing strategy

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• The virtual meeting room with VoIP
• The efficiency of an actual meeting
• The flexibility of an online tool
• The reliability of a stored meeting report

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• One-click validations
• Notify your agreement, your comments or your
  disagreement to your team anytime with a single
  click.
• Publishing is time critical validations can be
  sent by e-mail, SMS, MMS and private RSS feeds.
• Point out what really matters notifications
  include previews of what have been validated or
  submitted.

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Video available on www.devolia.fr
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Video available on www.devolia.fr
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• Advanced CMS
• Time-saving drag drop uploads.
• Full I/O raw text, HTML, XML, PDF, MS Word,
  Excel, PowerPoint, RSS, Atom, LaTeX,
• Indexing of every element, versioning support.
• Built-in search engine.

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• Contributing and rendering engines
• MS Word-like, WYSIWYG text editor.
• Basic image workshop with crop and zoom
  functions.
• Third-party rendering engine.

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Video available on www.devolia.fr
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• Print management
• Include your printing and routing processes.
• Automatically send your High Res PDF.

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• The publishing platform, many opportunities
• for your team
• for the Editor in Chief
• for the Chief Communications Officer
• for the CEO the shareholders

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• Opportunities for your teams
• Work efficiently together
• Work wherever they are
• The defined workflow limits the risk of
  intervention

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• Opportunities for the Editor in Chief
• Every validation goes through him/her
• Logs and stats

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• Opportunities for the Chief Communications
  Officer
• In a holding, such platforms may contribute to
  reinforce its labeling over subsidiaries' brands
• Effortless communication and brand management
• The publishing platform easily provides a
  marketing extranet for your advertisement
  partners

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• Opportunities for the CEO and the shareholders
• Drastically reduce the publishing costs

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• Building a publishing platform
• Strategy study
• Publishing agency work
• Hardware architecture
• Software architecture
• Maintaining

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• Part 2. PHP as the dedicated language
• Out-of-the-box publishing platforms are not
  realistic
• Still, some macro-components can be pre-made
• Short development times
• A need for a language to work as glue

Part 2. PHP as the dedicated language case
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• Why PHP has been selected
• Free and light (vs. J2EE)
• Lots of useful libraries
• Large development community
• Reliable

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• Conclusion
• Welcome to the print 2.0

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