Arcavias is an e-commerce framework integrating natively into TYPO3 or other CMS. It's optimized for high volumes of visitors and orders while it can be adapted to almost every need (not only web shops). Presented at TYPO3 East Europe conference (#t3ee13)

1. ARCAVIAS
high performance e-commerce
in TYPO3
Stand Juli 2012
1/55

2. NORBERT SENDETZKY

3. METAWAYS
●
TYPO3 affine full service
provider
●
since 2001
●
ca. 50 employees
Metaways Infosystems GmbH
Speicherstadt, Hamburg
Stand Juli 2012
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5. ?

6. e-commerce framework

7. Why?

8. Must be flexible
→ not only web shops

10. Must be fast
→ several 1000 orders per day

12. Must be easy to integrate
→ in TYPO3, custom applications, etc.

14. The result: An e-commerce library

15. Key features

16. Optimized for speed

17. 100 000 products
~ 250 – 550 ms

18. Optimized for flexibilty

19. Everything can be extended or replaced
Almost everything can be configured

20. Optimized layers

21. Front-end
client
ExtJS
Controller
Frond-end
Controller
PHP
Session
View
I18n
DB
Logger
Data access
(MShop library)
TYPO3 Frontend
Basket
...
List
Admin
interface
Config
TYPO3 Backend
Admin
Plugin

22. Well tested
→ over 2500 test cases with 7800 tests

23. Uses a liberal licence
→ GPL for TYPO3 extension
→ LGPL for the framework

24. Easy to contribute
→ https://github.com/Arcavias

25. Easy to translate
→ https://www.transifex.com

26. Arcavias TYPO3 extension

27. Provides some plug-ins

30. Can be placed everywhere

31. Plug-in output consists of sub-parts

33. Can be configured via TypoScript

34. Provides an integrated
administration interface

36. Performance in TYPO3

37. 100 000 products
~ 900 – 1200 ms

38. Arcavias performance
1000
900
800
Arcavias
RealURL
URL builder
Extbase
Framework
Milliseconds
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
TYPO3 Ext
Zend demo

39. Performance tips for TYPO3

40. Use APC

41. APC performance
1600
1400
Milliseconds
1200
1000
with APC
no APC
800
600
400
200
0
cached
no cache

42. TYPO3 4.5 is fastest up to now

43. TYPO3 performance
800
700
Milliseconds
600
500
cached
not cached
400
300
200
100
0
4.5
4.7
6.0
6.1

44. Less products (default: 48)
→ creating links is expensive

45. Keep CHash as part of URL
→ storing in database is slow

46. Current status

47. Arcavias TYPO3 extension is still beta
Current version: 0.8

48. … not complete yet ...

49. … but already used in big projects
for our customers

50. Future

51. Next features:
→ Facetted search
→ User related content

52. Version 1.0 in Q1/2014

53. Interested?
arcavias.com
facebook.com/Arcavias

54. Questions?
Ideas?
Suggestions?

55. THANK YOU!
www.arcavias.com
Norbert Sendetzky
n.sendetzky@metaways.de
www.arcavias.com
Stand Juli 2012
55/55