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PHPOpenbiz - Open Business Application Framework

Build Business Web Applications with
PHPOpenbiz framework
Rocky Swen
Rockyswen@phpopenbiz.org

Architect, phpopenbiz.org
PHPOpenbiz – When Coding is Optional
New York PHP Conference & Expo 2006

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© 2006 IBM Corporation


Agenda
 What is PHPOpenbiz?
 PHPOpenBiz Goals
 PHPOpenbiz Advantages
 PHPOpenbiz Architecture Overview
 PHPOpenBiz Development Cycle
 Demos
 Questions

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PHPOpenBiz – When Coding is Optional


What is PHPOpenbiz
 A little history
 Project was started in 2003 with the goal to minimize the
coding efforts in business application development.

 A PHP business application framework featured with
 Metadata-driven design principal. Developers declare business
logic as metadata (zero-coding)
 Model-View-Controller
 Object Relational Mapping
 AJAX browser client
 Eclipse integrated authoring tool

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What is PHPOpenbiz (cont)
 Target User Community
 Professional software developers
 IT consultants
 Software Houses

 Target applications
 Management/Administration System (i.e. CRM, HRM)
 Company home-grown internal management systems
 Migration from desktop application to rich client web application
 Will satisfy the need for most of the database driven web
applications

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PHPOpenBiz Goals
 Speed up development of business applications by
providing standard development structures that allow
producing database driven web interfaces in less or no
time.

 Minimize Application Supportability & Maximize
Application Upgradeability by:
 providing centralized & complete application
framework.
 minimizing application coding requirements.
 clear separation of technology from business
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PHPOpenbiz Advantages
 Easy and powerful
 Editing XML metadata instead of coding
 Rich features – AJAX, MVC, ORM, Security …
 Build upon Zend Framework, but more focus on application
logic

 Quick development
 Framework provides common functions/services
 Customer logic is extended on core objects

 Low maintenance cost
 Managing metadata is cheaper than managing code

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Architecture Overview
 Metadata-driven design principal
 Openbiz objects are defined with XML metadata
 Metadata describes the properties and behaviors of an object
 Metadata describes the relationship between objects
 Objectfactory creates objects on the fly
 Openbiz core objects are the base of the framework
 All objects are extensible with customer classes

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Architecture Overview (cont)
Multi-layer Object Oriented design
AJAX Client – AjaxForm, jsForm
Authoring:
Openbiz
Eclipse
Plugin

Presentation – BizView / BizForm
Business logic – BizDataObj, Plugin Service
Data Integration – Zend_DB

Openbiz stack
MySQL

Oracle

MS SQL

Sybase

…

PHP Runtime
DB Vendor

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Architecture stack
Metadata
Objects

BizView

BizForm

BizDataObj

Extended object

Common
Services

Report Service

I/O Service

Email Service

Customer Service

Common
Application
Infrastructure

MVC

Object Factory

Data Validation

DataObj
Trigger

Smarty

ORM

XML Metadata Session Context

Security

Zend_DB

Runtime

Platforms

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PHP 5.x + Extensions
Windows

Linux

Others



 Model-View-Controller
 Openbiz MVC is more like JSF because both are component
based architecture
 Event/Action handling on BizForm methods
Controller

Clients

BizController

View

BizView+BizForm

Model

BizDataObj +
PluginService

Data

Web Server running PHP

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 Object Relational Mapping
 Support 1-M, M-1, 1-1 and M-M mappings between Data
Objects (BizDataObj) and DB Tables / Views
 SQL-like query expression language

 Stateful objects
 Objects states are stored in session context
 Objects keep persistency across session
 Objects can be configured as stateless

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 Eclipse integrated authoring tool
 Wizards to create objects metadata xml files
 GUI editor to modify elements of metadata
 Leverage the power of Eclipse platform – PHP Eclipse IDE, database
tools, UML designer, Web designer …

 Plugin services
 Customer logic can added in plugable services
 Service metadata allows change of implementation class
 Framework provides common services – email, export/import,
log, BIRT/report, excel, authentication, access control, audit
trail…

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Development Cycle

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Development Cycle (cont)

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Development steps with PHPOpenbiz
Requirements
Data model
User Interface

Create BizDataObj
Create BizForm

Openbiz
Eclipse
Plug-in

Create BizView
Create Templates

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 Publish a single table – build a page that manages
event attendees
 Flash url of the demo is at
http://www.phpopenbiz.org/document/openbiz_flash.htm

 Work on table relationship tutorial can be found at
project’s site

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Why OpenBiz?
 “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so
that the necessary may speak.”

Hans Hofmann
 Technology can solve a lot if not the most of business problems, but at
the same time can create additional very complex link that can
stumble development of business applications. By providing organized
way of describing and presenting complex business structures
OpenBiz “eliminates the unnecessary” complexity “so that the
necessary” (business) “may speak.”

 “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler.”

Albert Einstein
 OpenBiz is simple and straightforward but at the same time provides
clear pathway for solving complex business problems.

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Demos
 PHPOpenbiz demoapp
 UniqueAid Home Health Care
 Camp management (mycamp.net)

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Your Comments
 If you have any comments, advice, questions or
testimonials we’re looking forward to hear from you.
Please post them on our web site or send us via email.

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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Contacts
 Project website
http://www.phpopenbiz.org
 Emails
rockswen@phpopenbiz.org
support@phpopenbiz.org

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