What if you could use Plone only as a CMS and program a frontend in whichever Python web framework you want, with transparent access to the content? This way you get a proven, high-reward, low-maintenance CMS as a content backend and are free to write your application on top of that using the power and flexibility of your favorite web framework.

1. A Winning combination: Plone and your favorite web framework

2. Why?

3. Plone is the best CMS that is NOT written in PHP

5. Python

6. but...

7. Plone is complex

8. Plone can be slow

9. Caching is not always the answer to traffic

11. Frankenplone

12. It doesn't have to be like this. You can work with your favorite tools.

13. Content Mirror by Kapil Thangavelu

15. It's simple

17. And we can serve Plone content fast!

21. Configure the database with ZCML <configure xmlns=&quot;http://namespaces.zope.org/zope&quot; xmlns:db=&quot;http://namespaces.objectrealms.net/rdb&quot; xmlns:ore=&quot;http://namespaces.objectrealms.net/mirror&quot;> <!-- setup a database connection --> <db:engine url=&quot;postgres://localhost/plone&quot; name=&quot;mirror-db&quot; echo=&quot;True&quot;/> <!-- associate the database connection to mirror db structures --> <db:bind engine=&quot;mirror-db&quot; metadata=&quot;ore.contentmirror.schema.metadata&quot; /> </configure>

22. Configure custom content types For each custom content type installed on the site: <ore:mirror content= &quot;Products.ATContentTypes.content.document.ATDocument&quot; />

23. Generate tables and upload content dropdb plone createdb plone --encoding=UTF-8 # generate table definitions and create tables bin/instance run parts/productdistros/ContentMirror/ddl.py postgres > mirror.sql psql plone < /home/andy/plone/zinstance/mirror.sql # optionally, load existing content bin/instance run parts/productdistros/ContentMirror/bulk.py Plone

24. That's it. We're ready to rock & roll

25. The changes are sent synchronously to the database plone# select content_id, id, title from content where id = 'front-page'; content_id | id | title ------------+------------+---------------- 8 | front-page | Content Mirror sent this (1 row)

27. Repoze.BFG front end class WebSite(UserDict): implements(IWebSite,ILocation) __acl__ = [ (Allow, Everyone, 'view') ] def __init__(self, website_id): UserDict.__init__(self) self.__name__ = None self.__parent__ = None self.website_id = website_id session = Session() website = session.query( PloneContent ).with_polymorphic( PloneWebSite ).filter( PloneContent.id==website_id ).first() self.title = website.title

28. Plango, by Andy McKay from django.db import models from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType from utils import normalize_name class Content(models.Model): class Meta: db_table = u'content' content_id = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True, editable=False) id = models.CharField(max_length=256, editable=False) uid = models.CharField(unique=True, max_length=36, editable=False) portal_type = models.CharField(max_length=64, editable=False) status = models.CharField(max_length=64, editable=False, null=False) type = models.CharField(max_length=64, editable=False) container = models.ForeignKey('self', related_name=&quot;parent&quot;, editable=False)

31. By the way, don't worry about the Component Architecture. We have studied the Zope CA so you don't have to.

33. GAE front end application import os import wsgiref.handlers from google.appengine.ext import webapp from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template from google.appengine.ext import db from google.appengine.ext.db import polymodel from google.appengine.api import users class PloneContent(polymodel.PolyModel): id = db.StringProperty() uid = db.StringProperty() portal_type = db.StringProperty() status = db.StringProperty() type = db.StringProperty()

34. Plone content in GAE

35. All discussed front ends will be made available during the sprints. Keep an eye on: http://contentmirror.googlecode.com/

36. Case study The Library of Congress in Chile

37. Create multiple sites in one instance

38. Select content from a shared store

39. Define a unique site layout and style

40. Deploy sites using repoze.bfg

41. Let Plone be a part of the Python universe

42. Thank you! Carlos de la Guardia email: [email_address] twitter: cguardia blog: http://blog.delaguardia.com.mx