The document discusses ImpressCMS, an open-source content management system (CMS). It provides an overview of ImpressCMS' features such as its modular architecture, ease of administration, security, and the ImpressCMS Persistable Framework (IPF) which allows for rapid module development. It also introduces imBuilding, an ImpressCMS module that enables easy creation of custom modules through a graphical interface.

1. 2010 FSOSS Symposium
Introduction & Installation
of ImpressCMS
Steve Kenow
RAD with IPF on ImpressCMS 1.2
Marc-André Lanciault
INBOX International inc.

2. INBOX International inc.
• Founded in 2003
• PHP/MySQL Web Development
• XOOPS / ImpressCMS / Wordpress / LAMP Expertise
• Team of 15 people all around the world: USA, Canada,
Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, England, Spain
• Clients:
– All around the world
– Small and large companies
Marc-André Lanciault

3. Steve Kenow
• 1st
computer was an Apple IIe.
• believes there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a
reason.
• has a great desire to learn and wants to continuously improve
• regularly examines his thought processes and personal experiences to
understand better.
• likes to take apart, then study processes, ideas, problems, solutions,
mechanisms, or plans.
• can quickly spot relevant patterns and issues.

4. Other.

5. According to Ohloh.net:
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Very large, active development team.
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Over the past twelve months, 26 developers
contributed new code to ImpressCMS.
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This is 'one of the largest open-source teams in the
world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on
Ohloh.'
www.ohloh.net/p/impresscms

6. Some interesting numbers
• As of 25 October 2010, 20308 commits were made in
the ImpressCMS SVN
• This is more than 500 commits per month!
• 30 September 2010: publication of the 35rd release
of ImpressCMS: ImpressCMS 1.2.3 RC
• sourceforge.net/projects/impresscms/

7. Awards
• November 11, 2009: ImpressCMS wins “Most
Promising Open Source CMS” Packt Awards
• October 30, 2008: ImpressCMS wins 3rd place
in “Most Promising Open Source CMS” Packt
Awards
• www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners

8. • Developed with
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PHP
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MySQL
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Smarty
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jQuery
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Runs on Linux and Windows
Community Management System

9. History
• PHPNuke
• NukeAddons
• MyPHPNuke
• myPHPNuke SE
• XOOPS 1.x
• XOOPS 2.0.17
• ImpressCMS

10. User-centric
• Connect and login with OpenID, LDAP or local
database authentication
• Customizable user profiles and registration
• Personal notifications and bookmarks
• Global commenting built in
• Global search feature
• International and multi-lingual

11. Easy extensions
• Easily Extended
– Use one of over 500 modules or
– Create one of your own with imBuilding
• Easy to Layout and Theme
– Smarty Template Engine
– Customizable content areas

12. Easy to Administer
• Highly configurable user profiles
• Customize content for different groups and
users
• WYSIWYG editors supported and included
• Centralized image management

13. Security P@r@n01@
• Critical files not accessible in browser
• Multiple forms of encryption
• User input filtered by HTML Purifier
• Access controlled by group permissions system

14. What is IPF
• ImpressCMS Persistable Framework
• Comes from SmartObject module
• Natively implemented in ImpressCMS 1.1
• Framework allowing rapid module development
for ImpressCMS

15. IPF Goals
• Address 80% of common tasks of most module
• Enable easy and rapid development
• Reuse code wherever possible (centralization, easy
maintenance, use less resources, etc...)

16. IPF Main Concepts
• DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
• KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid)
• Convention over Configuration

17. IPF Main features
• Create, edit and delete objects
• List, Sort, Filter objects
• Display a single object
• Support events: beforeInsert, beforeUpdate,
afterInsert, beforeDelete, etc…
• Export objects
• Permission management of objects

18. IPF Main Features (more...)
• Search
• RSS generation
• Automatic creation and update of database tables
• Objects registry (cache)
• Management of common fields of an object:
– Meta keywords
– Meta Description
– Short URL
– Counter

19. ImBuilding module
• ImpressCMS module allowing easy creation of modules
– Module global information: author, support web site,
credits, license, etc...
– Objects definition
– Objects fields definition
• When the module is generated, a Zip file is created
containing all files of the module
• The module is then usable “out of the box”
• Developer can then focus on the important aspects:
business logic, templates, etc...

20. imBuilding: Module Creation

21. imBuilding: Module View

22. imBuilding: Adding an Object

23. imBuilding: Viewing an Object

24. imBuilding: Adding a field

25. CMS Expo Chicago 2010
facebook.com/ImpressCMS
twitter.com/impresscms
ImpressCMS.org
community.impresscms.org

26. To learn more...
ImpressCMS
http://www.impresscms.org
http://twitter.com/impresscms
INBOX International inc
http://inboxinternational.com
http://twitter.com/INBOXintl
http://facebook.com/INBOXIntl

27. To learn more...
Steve Kenow
ImpressCMS Management
http://twitter.com/skenow
http://facebook.com/skenow
Marc-André Lanciault
CEO, INBOX International inc.
http://twitter.com/marcan
http://facebook.com/malanciault
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcan