Craft CMS Summit 2014: Element Types & Plugin Development

1. Element Types & Plugin Development Ben Croker • @ben_pylo • Craft CMS Summit 2014
3. ExpressionEngine Add-Ons Craft Plugins
4. Lead Developer
5. Dublin (Ireland) ! Vienna (Austria)
8. Craft’s Architecture
9. Caching • Logging • Validation • Authentication • Internationalisation
10. MVC
11. Controller Model View Request
12. Controller View Record Database Controller Layer Data Layer Request
13. Craft MVC
14. Controller Template Request Service Services Record Database Controller Layer Service Layer Data Layer Router Request Routing Layer
15. Controller Template Request Service Services Record Database Controller Layer Service Layer Data Layer Router Request Routing Layer
16. Routing
17. 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
18. Plugin Development
19. validator controllers elementtypes fieldtypes models records resources services templates variables ValidatorPlugin.php
21. Services
23. Records
25. Sample Plugins
26. Element Types
29. app elementtypes AssetElementType.php CategoryElementType.php EntryElementType.php GlobalSetElementType.php MatrixBlockElementType.php TagElementType.php UserElementType.php
31. Localisable Filterable Relatable Linkable
32. E-Commerce
33. Products & Orders = Entries Products = Entries; Orders = Distinct Products & Orders = Distinct
34. Products & Orders = Native Elements
35. Demo
36. Unified Elemental Content Type Consistent User Experience
37. What you knew before ! Craft
38. Thank You Ben Croker • @ben_pylo • Craft CMS Summit 2014