How we used Erlang web framework Zotonic as a content backend for Planidoo, a PHP project.

1. David de Boer
Driebit
BETA
Zotonic Community Day
6 Nov 2014
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3. Planidoo
• Event organisation platform
• Help and inspire users
• Content owners

7. Architecture
• Custom-built
• Silex/AngularJS frontend
• Symfony2 REST API
• Elasticsearch, Redis etc.
• Zotonic CMS and API

8. Zotonic
• Linked content
• Data fixtures
• Services for retrieval

9. Limitations
• Two APIs, two stacks
• Interconnected data
• Blocking HTTP requests

10. Solutions
• Elasticsearch as single data source?
• Zotonic as data store?
• Rebuild everything in Erlang?

12. PHP: quantity
• Symfony: 9144 stars, 3502 forks
• Active community
• There’s a library for that

13. PHP: quality
• Loosely coupled components
• Coding standards and inspection
• Tests
• Documentation
• Dependency management

14. Building a community
• Plug and play
• Stability
• Beginner docs

15. Thanks
david@driebit.nl
http://driebit.nl
https://github.com/driebit
https://github.com/driebit/puppet-zotonic
https://github.com/driebit/mod_elasticsearch