Presented at WordPress Sydney User Group, Tim Plummer talks about his experiences using Akeeba Web Framework (AWF). AWF is a web application framework for single source standalone web applications, Joomla! components and WordPress plugins.

1. Cross-CMS Plugin Development
using AWF
Presented by Tim Plummer
26/10/2015

2. My Holy Grail
• A framework for building applications that are
cross-CMS compatible

3. Why?
• Single codebase to maintain
• Less code = less bugs
• Platform independent – let the web developer
choose the best CMS for that particular
project.
• Larger potential customer base

4. How
• Akeeba Web Framework (AWF)
A web application framework for single source
standalone web applications, Joomla! components
and WordPress plugins.
• WordPress 3.8.0 or greater
• GPL
• Requires PHP 5.3+

5. Who wrote AWF?
• Written by Nicholas Dionysopoulos from
akeebabackup.com who also has a WordPress
blog http://www.dionysopoulos.me/
• September 2014 – public release of AWF

6. What can AWF do for WordPress?
• Object Oriented programming
• MVC
• ACL
• Namespaces
• ORM
(This is something a
lot of WP developers
in the community
dream of)

7. Does it stack up?
• Not quite holy grail, but the closest I’ve seen.
• AWF is good for building back end application,
doesn’t help much with front end.
• AWF works well as stand alone PHP or in
WordPress, but ironically the Joomla
integration doesn’t work well (I recommend
still using FOF for Joomla apps).

8. What I like
• Code is very similar to FOF
• MVC
• Separation of content from presentation, with
overrides for views and media files
• JSON support

9. What I think is missing
• JForm equivalent – Lot more code required to
create form fields etc.
• CSV export
• Front end routing

10. How does it work in WordPress?
• App folder contains AWF,
and files for plugin
• Helper files provide
wrapper to bootstrap the
application

11. Cpanel view in AWF

12. List view in AWF

13. Form view in AWF

14. AWF for Stand Alone PHP

15. Stand alone installation

16. Configuration file

17. User table

18. Where do I get AWF?
• http://akeebabackup.com/download.html
• https://github.com/akeeba/awf

19. Where do I get AWF?
• http://akeebabackup.com/download.html
• https://github.com/akeeba/awf
Demo time…

20. Can you do me a favour?
• I’m looking for people to help me beta test BF
Survey for WordPress before I release it. I
need your feedback, for example what
features should be in free version vs paid
version.
• Register via bfsurvey.com

21. Questions?

22. Where can I get AWF?
• https://www.akeebabackup.com/download.ht
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• https://github.com/akeeba/awf
Tim Plummer
www.timplummer.com.au
@bfsurvey