Presentation about the state of file and document management in Joomla - Joomladay Netherlands 2012

1. Joomla file and
document management
http://joomlatools.com Johan Janssens
JOOMLADAY NL 2012

2. A little bit of history

3. 22 April 2006
First Joomladay ever
120 people

4. Joomlatools started in
2006

5. Meet the team !

6. 12 people, all over the world

7. File management in Joomla
over the years.

8. 2005 Joomla 1.0

9. 2008 Joomla 1.5

10. 2012 Joomla 2.5

11. Document management in
Joomla over the years.

12. DOCman, quick history
• Manage documents
• Publish downloads
• Manage permissions

13. DOCman 1.3 was the
testing ground for Joomla 1.5
• Rude MVC in DOCman MVC in Joomla
• Theming Template overrides
• Mambots Plugins
• DOClink Editors-xtd
Tradition of Innovation

14. DOCman 1.5/1.6

15. DOCman 1.5/1.6
• Native Joomla 1.5
• Stability
• Security
• Performance

16. Native version
was the number 1 feature request
http://ideas.joomlatools.eu/pages/docman

17. Native vs Legacy
1.4 1.5 1.6 2.0
Legacy
Joomla 1.5 Joomla 1.5 Joomla 1.6/1.7 Joomla 2.5

18. Stability
At 1 million downloads a year, we know that lots of sites
depend on DOCman. We don’t take risks with your data.
• Make upgrades as painless as possible
• No database changes
• No behaviour changes

19. Security
• Big complex projects have a higher risk factor
• Software that manages sensitive data is more
attractive to hackers
• Yet not a single vulnerability was discovered in
DOCman in the past three years

20. Performance DOCman 1.4
DOCman 1.5/16
Page render in milliseconds Memory usage in Mb
420 12
415
376 10 10,45
315
8 8,5
210 6
4
105
2
0 0
10% gain 20% gain

21. Features
• GPL • Custom fields
• Nested categories • Local or remote
storage
• Group ACL
• Logs & statistics
• Themes
• Search
• Plugin support
• Anti-leech
• MVC
• ...
• DOClink

29. Time for innovation !

30. 150 Feature requests for DOCman
Most of them are very specific to one single use case
http://ideas.joomlatools.eu/pages/docman

31. 29 DOCman Extensions on JED
Most of them are very specific to one single use case
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/docman-extensionsman

32. Comments
Categories
Multiple file
Google Analytics upload Remote file
upload
Tagging
Easy file
linking Upload progress
Versioning Automatic thumbnail
generation
Drag & Drop File listings
Image gallery
Activity logs
Rating

33. The real problem is
extensibility

34. The solution ?

35. Joomlatools Framework!
• Rapid Extension Development Framework, make an
extension extendable.
• Sits alongside the Joomla Framework, installs as a
plugin through EXTman, our new extension manager.
• Joomlatools extensions get code reusability and
extensibility out of the box.
3 years of development

36. Joomlatools Framework dramatically
reduces the amount of code in an extension
Shorter development time
Less bugs
Less security vulnerabilities
Easier to understand, easier to extend

37. FILE AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT FUTURE
ACL Mobile Amazon S3
Tagging Notifications Google Docs
Backup Workflows Box.net
Parameters Extendability Dropbox
(either official or 3PD plugins)
Extensions build on the Joomlatools Framework

38. 4 extensions, not one !
1. DOCman
Document en download manager
2. FILEman
Advanced file and media manager
3. LOGman
User activity streams
4. EXTman
Extension manager

39. DOCman 2.0

40. FILEman 1.0

41. LOGman 1.0

42. EXTman 1.0

43. What should you remember?
• DOCman was a key driver for innovation in Joomla 1.5
• For DOCman 1.5/1.6, keeping your documents secure is
our primary concern
• DOCman 2.0 is build from the ground up using a new and
more powerful architecture
• Not one but 4 new extensions : DOCman, FILEman,
LOGman and EXTman.

44. Thank you
QUESTIONS?