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Element Types & Plugin Development Ben Croker • @ben_pylo • Craft CMS Summit 2014

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ExpressionEngine Add-Ons Craft Plugins

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Lead Developer

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Dublin (Ireland) ! Vienna (Austria)

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Craft’s Architecture

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Caching • Logging • Validation • Authentication • Internationalisation

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MVC

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Controller Model View Request

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Controller View Record Database Controller Layer Data Layer Request

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Craft MVC

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Controller Template Request Service Services Record Database Controller Layer Service Layer Data Layer Router Request Routing Layer

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Controller Template Request Service Services Record Database Controller Layer Service Layer Data Layer Router Request Routing Layer

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Routing

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Resource Request URI contains resource trigger (“cpresources” by default) Action Request * URI contains action trigger (“actions” by default) or “action” parameter Element Request URI matches that of an element (entry, category or plugin) Dynamic Route URI matches a dynamic route in routes.php or as defined in control panel Template URI is a valid template path 404 URI cannot be resolved

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Plugin Development

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validator controllers elementtypes fieldtypes models records resources services templates variables ValidatorPlugin.php

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Services

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Records

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Sample Plugins

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Element Types

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app elementtypes AssetElementType.php CategoryElementType.php EntryElementType.php GlobalSetElementType.php MatrixBlockElementType.php TagElementType.php UserElementType.php

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Localisable Filterable Relatable Linkable

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E-Commerce

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Products & Orders = Entries Products = Entries; Orders = Distinct Products & Orders = Distinct

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Products & Orders = Native Elements

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Demo

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Unified Elemental Content Type Consistent User Experience

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What you knew before ! Craft

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Thank You Ben Croker • @ben_pylo • Craft CMS Summit 2014