CiviCRM - Advanced Topics Dave Greenberg Michal Mach

Topics  Preview upcoming releases  Data model overview  Integrating, customizing and extending administrator configured forms and directories customized templates public APIs Hooks  Permissioning and ACLs  Localisation and translation

Upcoming Releases  1.8 Last release for PHP4 and MySQL 4 Duplicate detect and merge API architecture changes Price Sets and RSS for events CiviReport - BIRT  2.0 Data model improvements: custom data, locations Search re-write Component architecture

CiviCRM Data Model  Xml/schema  Contacts and location data  Groups and tags  Option groups and values  Relationships  Activities  Custom fields and data  Profiles

Integrate, Customize and Extend  Administrator configured forms and directories (profiles - settings and fields)  Customizing templates  API overview and examples  Hooks  Custom components

CiviCRM Profiles  Expose search, listings, and contact sign- up (create) forms w/o coding  Configure sets of core and custom fields  Linked to user registration, user account, or other components (CiviContribute) and modules (e.g. eCommerce…)  Module-rendered OR standalone forms

Using API’s in Simple PHP snippets EXAMPLE… Get sorted listing for members of a 'named' group using search API

Reporting with BIRT  Requirements  Creating and customizing reports

Two-way Integration w/ Hooks  Rationale / Benefits  Demo / Key integration points  Code review and tips  Issues and Hacks in current release

Future Directions / Feedback  On our “radar” Easier to extend with custom components Better developer doc and more examples Remote API invoke via REST Search improvements (UI / API) - flexible query building (AND / OR, grouping, more operators…) Command-line import (large datasets)  ?? What’s important & missing or “needs work” ??

Resources  Project Home  Documentation  Community Forum (support and discussion)  Developer Mailing List (civicrm_dev)  FAQs  Downloads  Issue Tracker

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