cultuurnet showcase

1. ShowcaseDavy Van Den Bremt

2. What will you learn today? What CultuurNet does How and where they use Drupal How the reusable Drupal solution is built and works Some stuff we learned down the road

3. For the Drupal geeksThis talk is about Drupal sites where the content and users live outside of Drupal. So no nodes and no Drupal users.

4. Who I am Davy Van Den Bremt More than 5 years Drupal Involved in development of multiple CultuurNet solutions over 3 years Working at Krimson

5. What Cultuurnet does ... thats relevant to this talk

6. Gather events (in Flanders) ...

7. Distribute these events ...

8. ... by region ...

9. ... by target audience ...

10. ... on multiple platforms ...

11. iPhone

12. Mobile web

13. Android

14. Philips TV

15. Distribute everywhere On own platforms On other peoples platforms

16. Create an experience ... around that content

17. Enrich content

18. Building a central user prole

19. Let people express what they like and go to

20. Recommend events and users

21. The platform

22. Widgets Drupal websites Drupal modules Custom iPhone, Android, ... API APIUiTdatabank UiTid

24. UiTdatabank API Rest API XML or JSON response Slice of content based on API key

25. UiTdatabank API Get events Get actors Get productions Get reports Get static values (cities, categories, ...)

26. /events/search?key=1

27. /events/search?key=1&q=madonna&city=gent

28. /event/[CDBID]?key=1

29. /events/report?key=1&city=gent

31. UiTid API (CultureFeed) Rest API XML or JSON response OAuth authentication

32. UiTid API (CultureFeed) Gebruikers opvragen Gebruikers beheren Acties doen Aanbevelingen opvragen ...

33. createUserupdateUserdeleteUsergetUsersearchUsersgetSimilarUsersuploadUserDepictionresendMboxConfirmationForUserupdateUserPrivacygetUserServiceConsumersrevokeUserServiceConsumerupdateUserOnlineAccountdeleteUserOnlineAccountcreateActivityupdateActivitydeleteActivitysearchActivitiessearchActivityUsersgetTopEventsgetRecommendationsForUsergetRecommendationsForEventevaluateRecommendationgetUrlAddSocialNetworkgetUrlChangePasswordgetUrlLogoutgetServiceConsumerscreateServiceConsumerupdateServiceConsumer

34. /user/search (OAuth tokens!!!)

35. Other systems Tracking(has API and JS suite) Enrichments (has API) Media indexer Agents

36. So, wheres Drupal ?

37. Media sites Media Indexer Youtube Wikipedia Resto.be Cobra CultureFeed UitDatabank Enrichments TrackingUiT in Vlaanderen UiT in Vlaanderen iPhone Android Philips TV Widgets MobileUiT met Vlieg UiT in Gent UiT in Vlaams-Brabant

38. The Drupal solution

39. Module suites CNApi CultureFeed

40. Module suites vision Layered Each layer adds functionality Only use what you need Plug & play Its possible to get a full site out of the box Implements whats used on most sites

41. CNAPIDrupal module suite for UiTdatabank API

42. The CNApi suite modules API layer (cnapi) UI layer(cnapi_ui) Browse, search and lter UI elements (cnapi_browse) Some extra UI elements (cnapi_extras) Tracking (cnap_trackingi) Shadow nodes (cnapi_snode) View 3 integration (cnapi_views)

43. API layer (cnapi) (Drupal) PHP implementation for UiTdatabank API Results parsed in array structures Caching implemented Removes quirks

44. API layer : Example calls // List events UiT met kinderen in Leuven$query = array(city => Leuven,heading => 179);$result = cnapi_get_events($query);// List actors in Limburg$query = array(regio => Provincie Limburg);$result = cnapi_get_actors($query);// List productions in Bioscoop$query = array(locationtype => 8.9.1.0.0, type => 0.50.6.0.0);$result = cnapi_get_productions($query);// Detail eventobject Pukkelpop 2011$result = cnapi_get_event(96f4401d-800a-49ca-8c74-5d6e49b131b3);// Detail actorobject Ancienne Belgique$result = cnapi_get_actor(3b98fcf8-81e4-4cb0-a95a-50ee637a2b91);// Detail productionobject Cars 2: World Grand Prix$result = cnapi_get_production(c6efbab4-5e64-4f96-a26f-c00aa997a0ba);// Bovenstaande functies zijn wrappers rond cnapi_get$request = array(action => list_detail, type => event, query =>array(cityid => 9000_GENT));$result = cnapi_get($request);// Rubrieken$result = cnapi_get_headings();

45. API layer : Example result

46. UI layer (cnapi_ui) Provides result pages (context concept) Provides detail pages Provides RSS feeds Provides Drupal templates Implements tracking Provides helper functions to work with requests

47. UI layer (cnapi_ui) SEO Optimised URL redirects canonical and noindex cnapi_ui_preprocess_link hook_url_(in/out)bound_alter

48. Browse, search and lter UI elements (cnapi_browse)

49. Some extra UI elements (cnapi_extras)

50. Shadow nodes (cnapi_snode)

51. Why create them? A lot of functionality is available that works on nodes Rating Comments Sharing

52. What are shadow nodes? CDBID Create node when used rst time NID DrupalAPI object node Fetch info (in real time) Full when node is viewed CDBID details

53. Why not sync all details? Theres a lot of details Theres a lot of data That can change Syncing is hard (how to detect changes?)

54. How it was done

55. CultureFeedDrupal module suite for UiTid API

56. The CultureFeed suite modules PHP Class library API layer (culturefeed) UI layer(culturefeed_ui)

57. PHP Class library Usable outside of Drupal context Object oriented Results parsed as typed objects

58. Example usage

59. Implements complete API

60. API layer (culturefeed) Provides singleton object to make calls without caring about keys, secrets, ... and ask Drupal specic questions DrupalCultureFeed::doSomething() Implements caching layer Provides OAuth authentication callbacks

61. Example usage

62. Implements OAuth authentication

63. UI layer (culturefeed_ui) Provide login block Provides pages to administer account Provides blocks with recommendation, related users, ...

64. Lessons learned

65. Use SEO as a performance optimisation tool

66. Creating a userprogrammatically is heavy

67. Learn custom url rewriting

68. Pay attention to block caching

69. Lazy content loading (1) Some pages have a lot of API calls to fetch all info. Fetch info using Ajax. Not possible by Drupal out of the box.

70. Lazy content loading (2)

73. Get the code http://github.com/davyvandenbremt/cnapi http://github.com/davyvandenbremt/culturefeed

74. Questions?

75. Davy Van Den [email protected]

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