Symfony2 CMF Project
The Big Picture
An overview of the Symfony2 content management framework with lots of pictures.
The Symfony CMF project makes it easier for developers to add CMS functionality to
applications built with the Symfony2 PHP framework. Key development principles for the provided
set of bundles are scalability, usability,
documentation and testing
Content management framework,
not content management system
- Use what you can
- Replace what you need
- Ignore what you do not need
- Collection of modular tools to do content management
- Not a ready-to-use application for end users
Symfony2 Control Flow
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Symfony2 Control Flow
CMF additions
At a glance
PHPCR and the ODM
- PHPCR: Standardized API for content repositories
- Tree-based, schema-less, versioning database
- PHPCR-ODM: map nodes to your objects
- Add features like multilanguage
Content Routing
- ChainRouter allows to have several routers in action
- User-defined routes in doctrine store
- Specifies controller and page content to use
- Or just the template instead of controller (with the ContentBundle)
Content Bundle
- Provides generic controller so you need only a custom template
- Simple StaticContent model and template
Menu Bundle
- Integrate KnpMenuBundle with Doctrine
- Menu documents reference content documents
- Generates URL for content
Frontend Editing: Create.js
- backbone.js based editing framework
- Uses RDF annotations to detect editable data
- Comes with hallo.js for contentEditable
- Symfony2 integration for saving data via REST
Backend: Sonata PHPCRODM AdminBundle
- Based on the SonataAdminBundle
- Supports tree oriented data
Many companies are committed to the effort
