eZ Platform - A Full Stack Symfony CMS, ready for the distributed world. Built from the ground up on the popular Symfony Framework and gives developers access to powerful features such as: - A Flexible Content Repository - An Extensible User Interface - A Comprehensive REST API - Siteaccess Concept for Flexibility - Powerful User and Permission Management http://ez.no/Blog/How-Symfony-developers-can-take-advantage-of-eZ-Platform-a-fully-featured-Symfony-CMS The eZ Platform is a base for the eZ Studio product.

1. FULL STACK
SYMFONY CMS
18 MAR 2016
EZ PLATFORM

2. DISCLAIMER
Don’t believe a software vendor!

3. SOME HISTORY & CONTEXT
About eZ

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IN NUMBERS
Skien
15 year old software company, dedicated to provide tools and solutions
where Content means Business. We are recognized as a leader in
the domain of Content Management that constantly stays on the edge of innovation.
New York Lisbon
Paris
Oslo
Tokyo
Lyon
Cologne
Katowice
45.000+
Members
80 Employees
250.000+
Installations
200+ Partners
5M+ Downloads
Users in
160 Countries
Commercial
Open Source

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eZ Publish, 1999-2015
๏Open Source
๏First version in 2000
๏Rewrite for eZ Publish 3 being more a CMF on PHP4
๏Development of eZ Components
๏First PHP5 version developed by the eZ Community
๏Addition of CXM components from 2011

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OUR SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS in 2016
By providing tools, solutions & services through a digital business platform,
the eZ Publish Platform, covering a range of business needs:

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eZ ENTERPRISE
The next generation of eZ
eZ Platform
eZ Studio
Cloud Services
Personalization | Smart Analytics | Marketing Automation
eZ Studio
For content
creators
For developers
& designers
CONTENT PLATFORM
Build unique digital experiences
that work
CONTENT STUDIO
Create and manage your content
with ease
CONTENT INTELLIGENCE
Maximize the relevance of your
content and grow your business

8. KEY HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
eZ Platform

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Key characteristics

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Key characteristics

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When is eZ Platform used?
๏More complex sites in terms of content architecture
๏Multilingual enterprise sites
๏“Integration heavy” web projects
๏Content Reuse / CaaS
๏Custom E-commerce

12. BUILT ON SYMFONY
The Symfony Full Stack Framework

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The Symfony Framework
๏Symfony is a popular general purpose web
framework with a million downloads a month
๏Developers familiar with the Symfony framework
can start working with eZ Platform quickly
๏The skillset is transferrable to other platforms built
with it (OroCRM, Sylius, Akeneo…)

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The Symfony Framework
๏A modern PHP framework that handles basics such
as routing, caching, i18n, forms and more…
๏Focuses on the HTTP request-response model
๏Actions like caching and other things very fluent,
since you’ll be working with responses
๏A solid architecture that allows extending
functionality with a Bundle mechanism

15. WHAT DOES eZ PLATFORM DO?
Adds Content Management Features to Symfony

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eZ Platform
๏Content Management is a complex problem domain
๏eZ Systems has over 15 years of experience in it
๏Solid concepts for multisite and multilingual publishing
with a semantic content model
๏Exposes PHP APIs and REST APIs to developers

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Content Repository
A Content Repository
๏A flexible storage for content
๏Fully integrated Solr search for high performance
with millions of content items
๏Sends API signals (on all operations like delete,
move, remove subtree, indexing…) for Micro
Workflows
๏Pluggable storage backends (currently SQL)

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REST API
A comprehensive REST API
๏A public interface to interact with the repository
๏The admin interface uses it - a first class citizen!
๏For content syndication or straight with front end
technologies like Angular, React or Vue…
๏Extensible, you can aggregate data from any
Symfony data models like Doctrine ORM

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Dynamic routing
Dynamic Routing
๏Uses the ChainRouter from Symfony CMF
๏Matches dynamic URLs from the repository:
๏http://example.com/products/bicycles/kids
๏Works with the static routes you’ve made:
๏http://example.com/polls/123

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Siteaccess concept
Siteaccess concept
๏Matching a URL to a set of configurations
๏Typical use cases are multisites and language
versions
๏http://example.de/
๏http://example.com/de/
๏http://de.example.com/

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User Interface
User Interface
๏A UI for managing the content, previewing, etc.
๏Uses the REST API for a no-pageloads experience
๏Designed to be extensible, developers can add
menu items
๏Enables centralizing of all data editing in your
Symfony applications to one interfaces
๏you can keep using Sonata or others, too

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User and Permissions management
User and Permissions management
๏A powerful user and permissions management
system using users, user groups and roles
๏Uses the Symfony session transparently
๏You can store users elsewhere (Active Directory,
LDAP, FOSUserBundle, etc.) and mock an eZ user
when accessing the content repository

23. BUILT FOR A DISTRIBUTED WORLD
Scaling horizontally with abstractions

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THE TARGETED ARCHITECTURE
Storage
eZ Platform Business Logic
Persistence & IO SPI
Public API
Symfony2 Web Framework
REST API
Twig Template Engine
Website / Demo siteCMS
User
Interface
End Users
(Website users)
Editor,
Marketer,
Admin
(CMS users)
Web Service
User Interface
APIs
Web Framework & dev
Kernel(s)
Content & Data

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Application Servers
๏PHP scales well by nature - just add more boxes
๏PHP 7 supported, big performance wins:
https://www.symfony.fi/entry/symfony-benchmarks-php-
56-hhvm-and-php-7
๏Docker to be the deployment choice going forward
๏https://github.com/ezsystems/docker-php

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Database
๏Uses the Doctrine DBAL for SQL abstraction
๏MySQL and MariaDB are now officially supported
๏PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL… technically feasible
๏http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/dbal.html

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File storage
๏eZ Platform uses the FlySystem abstraction layer
for file storage
๏A number of options out of the box: S3, Dropbox,
Azure Blob Storage…
๏Switching is a matter of configuration
๏http://flysystem.thephpleague.com

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Search
๏Solr, a separate search server built with Java
๏Communications over a RESTful API
๏Even higher performance and scaling with clustering
๏https://github.com/MSOpenTech/Windows-Azure-Solr

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Caching
๏eZ Platform uses the Stash abstraction layer
for caching
๏By default file caches, but can be switched to
Memcached, Redis…
๏Scale cache yourself or using Azure Redis, for
example
๏http://www.stashphp.com

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HTTP layer
๏eZ Platform uses the FOSHttpCache for HTTP
cache controlling
๏Supports user contexts, purging using tags…
๏Edge Side Includes (ESI) using HMVC from
Symfony
๏Example Varnish configurations out of the box
๏https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSHttpCac
heBundle

31. COOL LINKS OF THE DAY

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Cool Links
๏http://ezplatform.com
๏http://ezstudio.com
๏https://www.symfony.fi/entry/symfony-benchmarks-php-
56-hhvm-and-php-7
๏http://ez.no/Blog/How-Symfony-developers-can-take-
advantage-of-eZ-Platform-a-fully-featured-Symfony-
CMS
๏http://ez.no/Blog/How-eZ-improves-its-software-
development-process-with-Docker

33. Thank you!
Jani Tarvainen, Professional Services Consultant
jani.tarvainen@ez.no
@velmu