PHPCR: A (better) way to structure content

As presented at PFcongres Uncon 2013.

It was my very first talk, at way to shirt to explain the concept. So thats already 1 thing I learned :)

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1. PHPCR
   A (BETTER) WAY TO STRUCTURE YOUR CONTENT
   PFCongres 2013 Uncon - 14 september 2013
   

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2. WILLEM-JAN ZIJDERVELD
   PHP DEVELOPER AT BEELDSPRAAK
   Twitter: @willemjanz
   Blog: blog.willem-jan.net
   Github: github.com/wjzijderveld
   Email: wjzijderveld@gmail.com
   This is my very first talk, please be gentle
   

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3. WHAT'S THIS TALK ABOUT
   PHP CONTENT REPOSITORY
   Why would I need PHPCR
   What is PHPCR
   Who is using it
   When to use it
   When not to use it
   

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4. WHY WOULD I NEED PHPCR
   CMS data isn't always structured
   NoSQL isn't always a fit, but has similarities
   Makes it easy to switch storage engines
   A lot of build-in features
   

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5. WHAT IS PHPCR
   Ported from for TYPO3/Flow3
   Removed JAVA overhead
   Added PHP specifics
   Some naming changed
   PHPCR Utils
   Tree of nodes
   JCR-283
   

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6. WHAT IS PHPCR
   NODES
   Nodes have a name and a type
   A node has a path
   Nodes can have named properties with values
   

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7. WHAT IS PHPCR
   WORKSPACES
   Can be compared with branches in a VCS or with a filesystem
   

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8. WHO IS USING IT
   Jackalope (Jackrabbit/Doctrine-DBAL)
   Symfony CMF
   ServerGrove KnowledgeBase
   TYPO3
   Vespolina and Sylius
   Midgard2
   

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9. WHEN TO USE IT
   Hierarchical data
   With compound data; like attachments or translations
   When you need versioning
   When in need of FullText search
   

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10. WHEN NOT TO USE IT
    Strict structured data
    Aggregation
    

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11. QUESTIONS?
    

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