Techjoomla Infrastructure Extensions - Adding an Enterprise Layer to Joomla!

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horizontal/infrastructure extensions
less duplication,more innovation

Note to self …
Parth.Speak slowly !

Parth Lawate
@parthlawate
parth@tekditechnologies.com
● CEO, Techjoomla & Tekdi
Technologies
● Strategic Marketing Manager &
Asst. Team Lead @Joomla
Marketing Team
● Co Founder, JUG Pune
● Organiser Joomla Day India
Joomla Freak, Book Mad, Trekking & Outdoor Guy, Promote Linux
in my sleep,Cook, Entrepreneur

Tekdi
Technologies
take the lead
● Working with Joomla since the
Mambo days - 12 + Years now
● Consulting and custom
development for Joomla
● Joomla for enterprise
● Client base across the world

Techjoomla
● Shika LMS, JGive, Quick2Cart,
JGive, JTicketing are some of
our popular Joomla extensions
● Key open source contributions
include REST API , Common
Payments API for Joomla as
well as many more
infrastructure/Horizontal
extensions!
Joomla Extensions & Custom
development

modern apps for mobile and web
AppCarvers
● Products for EasySocial,
EasyBlog and JTicketing in the
Joomla space using com_api as
the backend
● Consulting and custom
development for Mobile apps
and cross platform chrome &
web apps
● Angular 2, Ionic based Unite
Framework

What are horizontal
or infrastructure
extensions ?
extensions that provide ready to use,
easy to integrate common features for
‘Vertical extensions’ can be termed as
‘Horizontal’ or ‘Infrastructure’
extensions
Horizontals/Infrastructure Extensions
Vertical
extensions with a
specific purpose Vertical
extensions with a
specific purpose
Vertical
extensions with a
specific purpose

Users & Access Categories
Tag
s
VersionsMenus Languages SearchFields
The Core Joomla Horizontals/Infrastructure Extensions
Articles Contacts Newsfeeds
Media
The CMS
Modules PluginsComponents Templates
Libraries Base Framework
Custom Extensions Custom Extensions
Super simplified view of Joomla’s core horizontal extensions

Why Infrastructure extensions ?
Don’t reinvent the wheel. And don’t just use it..Improve it!

common code just makes sense

1
N
otusing
Com
m
on
Code
2
N
otIm
proving
Com
m
on
Code
4
Less
Innovation
3
M
ore
Code
m
aintenance
+ = +

When to build infrastructure extensions ?
at every possible opportunity …

Requirement
Gathering
Solution
Architecture
Code Organisation & DB
Architecture
Joomla Core Platform + CMS
Common Open Source Libraries
Infrastructure Extensions
Bespoke Code
Bespoke UI
The Server Stack
Project Common Code
A new Joomla Library
Joomla Core Contribution
Extension Contribution
the spirit of opensource
Project specific Common Code
The bigger your ‘Common Code’ blocks, the less you
develop and maintain over time. Design your
architecture to maximise common code. Lower in the
stack, the better...
contribution as a strategy for growth and innovation
Common Knowledge, Standards
Extensions

horizontal building blocks
Horizontal, Infrastructure #Joomla extensions to help
reduce code and increase development efficiency

Unified Reporting with TJ Reports
https://github.com/techjoomla/com_tjreports

Benefits
● Use with any extension and
set a context by passing a
‘Client’ in the URL
● Add as many reporting
‘data plugins’ as you want
● Derive multiple reports from
the same data plugin with
configuration
● Supports Ownership &
Hierarchy Contexts and
Access control
● Available on the Backend
and Frontend
index.php?option=com_tjreports&client=shika
Package with your own extension with your own plugins
Report Customisation
Save Queries
CSV Export

In Action

Rest APIs with com_api
● Extend to any Joomla extension
● Token based Authentication
● Already supports APIs for Users,
Categories, Content & several
3rd Party extensions
● In Production use for several
years in enterprise projects and
several mobile apps
https://github.com/techjoomla/com_api
http://docs.techjoomla.com/com_api/
https://github.com/techjoomla/com_api-plugins

In action
You can download the various
postman collections available to try out
the existing APIs.

Use Cases
● Mobile Apps
● Alternative JS Frontends
● System Integrations

Hierarchy Management
● Manage User hierarchy
relationships
● Set context less or context
specific relations
● Basis for Access control based
on hierarchical position in an
organisation structure
● Integrates with RBACL, TJ
Reports and supports REST
APIs
https://github.com/techjoomla/co
m_hierarchy

Role based ACL
● Easier to understand
● Role Management
● User Role Mapping
● Joomla Action Mapping to
Roles
● Hack free implementation for
our own Extensions
● Needs a small core hack to
work with core Joomla - a
controversial PR but might be
possible with Joomla 4
Massive reduction in required User
groups for complex implementation.

TJ UCM
● Universal content management
using TJFields
● No Core fields !
● Any number of content types
● Category Support
● Field Support
● List views, Detail Views
● TJ Reports Flexible adapter for
reporting
● Ajax draft saving
lightweight CCK based on the concept
of UCM in Joomla. Not for the light
hearted though !

jLike Paths for flexible workflows
Based off jLike, todo’s (learning paths) & todo
lists to create a flexible path system
● Ability to link Multiple content items or forms
as a Workflow path via database
● Ability to create Paths with dependencies and
relations & optionally link with any jLike
Content
● Path Subscription & todo inheritance
● Todo completion tracking function for
integrating extension or project
● Path completion can be automatic, with user
confirmation OR on admin approval
● Overrides & plugin triggers for more complex
functions
● Also the Basis of Learning Paths coming
future Shika versions
N1
N2
N5
N4

Path Structure
Node 1 Node 2 Node 3
● Nodes are linked to content
items in jlike & are in essence
Rules based on which ‘todos’
are created
● You can define multiple master
paths
● Paths can be of nodes OR paths
can be of other paths
● When a user subscribers to a
Path, the todo’s based on the
path rules are inherited by the
user
Path of Nodes
Path 1 Path 2 Path 3
Path of Paths

Practical Example
Profile Work exp form Edu info form
● Here an example of the an
Application form is shown
● It is a Path of Nodes where the
first Node is say an EasySocial
profile and the next nodes are
independent UCM forms
● Paths serve as the ‘glue’ that
connects the independent
content nodes to serve a certain
purpose
● The overall flow is a path of
paths
Path of Nodes
Application Interview Certification
Path of Paths Master Path
Path 1 : Application
subpath 1 subpath 2 subpath 3
Node 1 Node 2 Node 3

Global Notifications
● Currently supports Email
notifications
● Support for SMS, Web Push and
Native ‘in site’ notifications is in
progress
● Magic Method to send
notifications
Centralised global notifications system
for Joomla with user control

In Action
● Each extension can define its
own Notification keys and install
them
● Each extension can also defined
its own replacement tags
● Supports user overrides
● Understands Client, Vendor and
item level contexts for overrides
com_client.vendor.content
● Magic Method
Tjnotifications::send
Tjnotifications::send($client, $key, $recipients, $replacements, $options)

In Action
● Define default content for all the
notifications you want to send at
installation
● Let Admins change and override
them with a backend interface
● Users can choose which
notifications to receive via a
front end interface

TJ Dashboard
Horizontal extension for user
configurable dashboards
● An extension can define &
install its own Dashboards
● Dashboards can have multiple
widgets
● Admin controls default
configuration
● Users can customise

In Action
● Data source plugins to define
data
● Renderers to represent in
multiple ‘layouts’

tjVendor
● Started in jTicketing
● To be extended to all TJ Multi
vendor extensions
● Common and Client specific
Vendor data management
● Common and client specific
fees management
● Payment management
Centralised Vendor
Management, Payouts for all our
multi vendor systems

Search Indexer
Configure Indexes
SOLR Adapter
Elastic Search Adapter
Local Index Adapter

Few more …
that i didn’t get time to make
slides for ;)
Common Payments for Joomla
Search Indexer with support for
SOLR and Algolia
JMailAlerts for Email Digests
A host of useful libraries that you
can find on
https://github.com/techjoomla

Thank you !

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