Announcement: Apostrophe 2 will use the Symfony CMF

[Tom Boutell]

I wanted to share with the community that P'unk Avenue has chosen the Symfony CMF (and PHPCR) as the foundation of the model layer for the forthcoming Apostrophe 2 CMS.

A graph database just makes sense for this sort of application and we look forward to reaping the benefits.

This has been a long time coming because we had (and have) a great deal of Symfony 1.x-based client work to complete, as well as the launch of our hosted Apostrophe service:

www.apostrophenow.com

But now we're in a position to commit time to building Apostrophe 2 and we're moving on that.

Thanks to all who have worked hard to create the CMF!

[Lukas Kahwe Smith]

Awesome sauce!

David, Nacho and Jacopo have been making huge strides in the last 2 weeks in putting the pieces together. And with the hackdays planned for the rest of the week on the create.js side, the phpcr meetup in paris this month and the admin bundle hack day in february that we will indeed have something solid to show for by the end of Q1.

While we also made some big steps forward on the Doctrine DBAL implementation for Jackalope in the past 2 months, its clear that this is still the biggest task we need to get a handle on before we can consider a first stable release. So again I would like to ask people to step up to move things forward. I do want to thank Luis Cordova and Justin Rainbow for the PR's they have send so far. I hope they will continue and others will join.

Damn, I just watched the German President BS his way out of the self inflicted shit storm he has decided to weather out .. and here I get on the soap box and give a politicians speed myself .. but oh well .. lets rock! :)

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
sm...@pooteeweet.org

[Tom Boutell]

Glad to hear the Doctrine DBAL implementation is moving along Lukas.

I do need to clarify a few things.

Our team is excited about PHPCR and it is the leading candidate for use in Apostrophe 2. But we haven't had an opportunity to evaluate other components of the CMF. 

So please regard this as an early embrace of PHPCR, and a thank you to the community around the CMF that has driven its development.

[Lukas Kahwe Smith]

ok .. the main thing you want to look at next is the ChainRoutingBundle. it adds dynamic routes to Symfony2.

[Jacopo Romei]

> I wanted to share with the community that P'unk Avenue has chosen the
> Symfony CMF (and PHPCR) as the foundation of the model layer for the
> forthcoming Apostrophe 2 CMS.

That's great news.
Thanks for letting us all know.

Ciao!

--
Jacopo Romei
http://www.sviluppoagile.it/
http://twitter.com/jacoporomei
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[David Buchmann]

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hi tom,

this is really awesome! glad to hear it and looking forward to help you
bring this along.

if you have not already done so, you should really look at the
cmf-sandbox[1]. it shows all of the current pieces in one place.

i will give some presentations on the current state of the cmf next
week, so i will also update the slides next week with the latest
state... stay tuned ;-)

cheers,david

[1] https://github.com/symfony-cmf/cmf-sandbox

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[David Buchmann]

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hi tom,

i wanted to ask how you are getting along with Apostrophe2

i hope you found the slides we did to introduce the cmf. in case you did
not, they are linked at http://cmf.symfony.com/

in my vision, Apostrophe2 would build on cleanly separated bundles and
components, much as Symfony2 itself. but with the difference that you do
not need to write all those bundles as we already did some for the cmf.
what can we do to help Apostrophe2 use as much as possible of the
existing cmf components? do you have a concept how Apostrophe2 is going
to be built, so we can comment on it and give inputs? it would be a
shame if you would re-develop things we already did because of
misunderstandings...

can you give some inputs as to what you would need most urgently from
the cmf community?

cheers,david

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