ZFCore - CMF on the Zend Framework

I present to the public the groundwork of my department - the CMF system based on the Zend Framework ...

Pursued goals

The main task solved by this project is to accelerate the development of applications to save time and increase competitiveness against the background of similar proposals for the development of custom web applications.

For lovers of metaphors
Imagine that you need to build a house, and there is only a forest in front of you, and you have to start from the very beginning - uprooting trees, leveling up the area, importing building materials, etc. ZFCore is a prepared construction site, all materials are brought and unloaded, and you can get to work.

Features of the project

What does this semi-finished product include:
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System :

• maximum number of options rendered in application.ini
• configurable via ACL configuration file (global and for each module)
• customizable navigation through the configuration file (global and for each module)
• routes configured via the configuration file (global and for each module)

User part :

• Users - Registration / Authorization / Activation - Alteration of the registration form will not take more than one day (saving time 16-24 hh)
• static pages - you only need to slightly change the external design (~ 4-8 hh)
• navigation, sitemap and sitemap.xml (~ 4-8 hh)

Administration :

• acceptable design in the same style (~ 4-8 hh)
• user management (~ 12-16 hh)
• managing static pages (including upload images) (~ 12-16 hh)
• mail notification management (~ 12-16 hh)

On development stage

• Module Feedback (ContactUs if this is more clear) (~ 12-16 hh)
• Module blog / forum - they differ only in presentation (~ 24-32 hh)

This functionality is present in almost every project, as a result - saving development time will be about 96 hours (plus testing and management).

Lotions

• Almost everything can be configured / connected from application.ini
• Modules are written as independent as possible.
• DB Migrations
• Action_Scaffold - not a code generator, but also convenient
• The admin panel is built using DojoToolkit and Zend_Dojo_Form
• We try to cover the code with tests.

A bunch of Action_Scaffold + Zend_Dojo_Form gives a completely usable admin panel:





As for code coverage, I think coverage statistics will be more visual ...

Application coverage


Library coverage

Zamorochki

• Migrations while being muscled, adapters in transit
• Models are not yet separated by module.
• The application directory should be higher than the server's document_root, and public should be the same root
• The installation is not as such
• Dojo build script is not written yet, so for now we use it as it is

Try a tooth

You can take a look at the demo on our test server: http://zfcore.head.php.nixsolutions.com/ .

You can download it as a single archive with code-google - http://code.google.com/p/zfcore/downloads/list , or you can take the latest version from the SVN repository:

svn checkout zfcore.googlecode.com/svn/trunk zfcore-read-only

Wishes and comments are accepted in the bugtracker .

Other open source projects

For the curious, I advise you to delve into the code of the following systems:

• Magento eCommerce - the most powerful electronic store, the development of a domestic manufacturer
• Digitalus CMS - looks good outside
• Digitalus Framework Core - also a framework, without much activity ( repository )
• CAHAYA CMS - too much "Not yet implemented" ( demo )
• Open source job board
• MYAK-CMS - another project from a compatriot ( repository )
• CultSoft Engine is another CMS and also ours

I think it is also worth mentioning the various code generators for projects based on Zend Framework (scaffold):

• easyphpapp - build a CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) for Zend Framework
• Zenerator - class generator for working with the database
• GEckoToolbox - shape and grid
• Zend Framework data grid - datagrid for Zend_DB_TAble
• ZFDatagrid - for full disclosure of the topic of grids