Plone and Drupal: CMS Coexistence in Higher Education

70% of Higher Ed institutions running Plone also use Drupal. While some universities go down the path of consolidating onto one platform, there is another simpler and cheaper option: integrating the two CMSs.

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1. Plone and Drupal: CMS Coexistence in Higher Education Calvin Hendryx-Parker CTO June 18th, 2014 #psm14
2. #psm14 And more...
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4. #psm14 Fast forward...
5. #psm14 Newly spawned websites...
6. #psm14 Built on various CMS...
7. #psm14 March 2014 Data 69% COEXISTENCE
8. #psm14 How do you control web branding, content & infrastructure? Source: http://www.jaquesamerica.com
9. #psm14 Consolidation may be very tempting... Source: http://www.jaquesamerica.com
10. #psm14 Consolidation
11. #psm14 Cons... • Expensive: • CMS Evaluation • Migration • Bit Rot • Training • Demotivating • Polarizing Credits: http://ekladata.com
12. #psm14 There is another option...
13. #psm14 Integration
14. #psm14 UCLA - Integration http://www.rosebowlstadium.com/teams/detail/ucla
15. #psm14 • PushHub Implementation: • Pyramid with ZODB • Redis • Feedparser • Solr What is PushHub?
16. #psm14 Standards
17. 5/15/14 Webinar PHP I can’t believe I’m about to do this
18. #psm14 /** * Implements hook_node_insert(). */ function pushhub_node_insert($node) { if ($node->status && $node->promote) { pushhub_notify(array($node->nid), 'shared.xml'); } }
19. #psm14 /** * Put stuff in the queue */ function pushhub_notify($nids, $topic='shared.xml', $timeout=60){ $hub_url = variable_get('pushhub_huburl', 'http://example.com/hub'); Resque::setBackend('localhost:6379'); $headers = array('Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $topic_url = url("pushhub/" . $topic, array('absolute' => TRUE)); $payload = array('hub.mode' => 'publish', 'hub.url' => $topic_url); $hub_endpoint = $hub_url . "/publish"; # Add the job to the queue Resque::enqueue('default', 'Post', array($hub_endpoint, $payload, $headers, $timeout)); }
20. #psm14 class Post { public function perform() { $endpoint_url = $this->args[0]; $payload = $this->args[1]; $headers = $this->args[2]; $timeout = $this->args[3]; $request = Requests::post($endpoint_url, $headers, $payload, array('timeout' => $timeout)); } }
21. #psm14 import requests ! ! def post(endpoint, payload, headers, timeout=60): response = requests.post( endpoint, data=payload, headers=headers, timeout=timeout) return response.status_code
22. 5/15/14 Webinar Demo
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32. #psm14 Learn More Download case studies at sixfeetup.com Talk to Sixies: Calvin Carol
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