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- 1. CakePHP in Higher Education J. Erik Schaeffer (aka phpdiddy) phpdiddy.com @phpdiddy IRC: phpdiddy
- 2. Who is this guy? PHP since 2002 CakePHP since 2006 – 1.1.x FTW! BA in Computer Information Science (yay, a piece of paper!)
- 3. Zend Certified Engineer (yay, more pieces of paper!) PHP4
- 4. PHP5
- 5. But what has he done? CDfuse/DoubleStereo CIO/Lead Developer
- 6. Ecommerce/Amazon S3 CakePHP Written some articles for the Bakery CDfuse Case Study (1.1)
- 7. Custom URLs from the site root (1.1)
- 8. Custom sessions with DB storage (1.3) Submitted some bugs
- 9. Edited roughly 1 line of documentation
- 10. How about at St. Edward's? Lead Developer/Web Architect Financial Aid Calculator
- 11. SOURCE Symposium on Undergraduate Research & Creative Expression Writing Center Appointment scheduling Upost University News and Event Management Omnio Portal (the Cake is not a lie)
- 12. What's this all about? Variety of Systems and APIs LDAP CAS/Shibboleth/Other SSO up next ERP Not quite yet Blackboard/Moodle Not quite yet, but close MailChimp
- 13. Zimbra
- 14. Drupal
- 15. CakePHP is the glue
- 16. Code 'n' Stuff LDAP Integration Setting up the LdapUser Model
- 17. Setting up the LdapAuth Component Drupal Integration Setting up the Drupal side
- 18. Setting up the vendor files
- 19. Setting up the DrupalComponent Omnio – using Cake to its fullest
- 20. LDAP Integration 2 pieces to the puzzle Model: LdapUser Sets up LDAP connection
- 21. Check username and password
- 22. Could be included in component
- 23. Probably should be a datasource, too...but it isn't cough – refactor - cough Component: LdapAuth Extends built-in Auth Component
- 24. Enables preAuthentication of users against LDAP
- 25. LDAP Integration Let's look at some code (zip on DropBox)
- 26. Drupal Integration Setting up Drupal Services module XML-RPC, JSON, REST, SOAP, AMF Devel Module Only for debugging
- 27. Helps you see what's going on inside Drupal
- 28. Helps see what the node objects/arrays look like
- 29. See SQL queries
- 30. Be sure to turn off for production!
- 31. Drupal Integration Services Module Setup We went with XML-RPC Best documentation at the time You write your own services Some built-in, but most need to be written
- 32. CCK can be painful when pushing content Taxonomy can be too Node objects/arrays must match up from the Cake side
- 33. Drupal Integration Vendor Files Create a “drupal” vendor folder
- 34. Drupal files need to be copied bootstrap.inc “Functions that need to be included on every Drupal request.” common.inc “Common functions that many Drupal modules will need to reference.” xmlrpc.inc “XML-RPC library for Drupal.”
- 35. Drupal Integration Let's look at some code (zip on DropBox)
- 36. Omnio Omnio is somewhat ambitious Portal product
- 37. Plan to open source the product once complete
- 38. Heavy integration with variety of services LDAP integration
- 39. Drupal integration including SSO
- 40. Zimbra SSO Heavy use of almost every aspect of Cake Themes, Plugins, Datasources
- 41. Omnio Demo
- 42. Wrap it up... I'll take it We love CakePHP at St. Edward's
- 43. Make life easy - extend core
- 44. Drupal and Cake – a match made in heaven
- 45. Did I mention we love Cake?
- 47. Thanks! phpdiddy.com @phpdiddy IRC: PHPdiddy