Drupal 8
What You Need To Know
I'm Dave Reid
The "Module Guy"
Drupal core contributor (since 2006)
New dad as of Oct 15, 2012: @OliverReid
You may know my cats...
Athena, hates Twitter and mustaches
Acknowledgements
Jess Myrbo (xjm)
Cathy Theys (YesCT)
Angela Byron (webchick)
Jen Lampton (jenlampton)
Gábor Hojtsy (Gábor Hojtsy)
Dries Buytaert (Dries)
Larry Garfield (Crell)
Kristof De Jaeger (swentel)
Matthew Tift (mtift)
Today
D8: The Big Picture
Major D8 Initiatives
How You Can Help
Drupal 8 Timeline
Jan 2011: Drupal 7.0 Release
Mar 2011: D8 Development Begins
Feb 2013: Feature Freeze
Jul 2013: API Freeze
Current: Polish phase
When should I
move to Drupal 8?
2014
(According to Dries)
2014-2015
(According to Dave)
What is exciting about Drupal 8?
D8 Initiatives
Mobile
Configuration Management
HTML5
Layouts
Multilingual
Views in Core
Web Services
Related Efforts
Successful, if not "Official"
Spark
Drupal 7 distribution
Incubator for Drupal 8
Focus on authoring experience
Twig
Template engine for PHP
Fast, Secure, Flexible
Convert all the .tpl.php files to .twig
Nearly 30 Other Community Initiatives
Status: July 2012
Current Status
Drupal 8
Mobile Initiative
Dries Buytaert
March 8, 2011
"If I were to start Drupal from scratch today, I'd build it for mobile experiences first, and desktop experience second."
Step One
D7 Documentation
All D8 Themes:
Responsive
✓ Bartik
✓ Stark
✓ Seven
D7 Problem:
Mobile
Experience
D8 Solution:
Mobile
Experience
D7 Problem:
Mobile Menus
D8 Solution:
Responsive Toolbar
(Spark)
D7 Problem:
Adding Mobile
Content
D8 Solution:
Responsive
Admin Screens
Breakpoint Module
Picture Module
Usability
Improved content editing
CKEditor
CKEditor In Core
(Spark)
Form Editing
In-Place Editing
Tour Module
D8 Usability:
How You Can Help
groups.drupal.org/usability
Lead: Bohjan Somers & Roy Scholten
Issue Tag: usability
IRC: #drupal-usability
Drupal 8:
Configuration Management
D7 Problem:
No good way to move Drupal configuration information between environments
D7 Problem:
Every module stores their configuration data in a different format
D8 Configuration API
Provides a central place for modules to store configuration data, such as site name or image styles
CMI for Developers
Replaces functions like variable_get()
$config = config('prefix.name');
$config->get('my.value');
$config->set('my.value','my new value');
$config->save();
Configuration data
stored in YAML files
/sites/default/files/config_xxx/active/system.site.yml
name: d8.local
mail: admin@example.com
slogan: ''
page:
403: ''
404: ''
front: node
admin_compact_mode: '0'
weight_select_max: '100'
langcode: en
Lots of .yml files
New Rule
"Don't hack core"
is replaced by
"Don't hack your active config"
in Drupal 8
-Alex Pott, Drupal Core and CMI Maintainer
.info files are now
.info.yml files
Drupal 8: HTML5
Switch Drupal's
default doctype from
XHTML to HTML5
HTML5 Form Elements
url, email, tel, date, color, range, number, search, and more!
Select Multiple Files
Multiple Upload
Drupal 8:
Blocks and Layouts
D7 Problem:
Blocks vs elements
Only one layout
Multiple instances of a single block
D8 Solution:
Plugin API
Replaces hook_info()
Changes how developers extend Drupal
Reusable code components
D7 Problem:
Not possible to remove English
Manually download language files
Translating description, alt, title, tags
Bazillion modules needed
Choose Language on First Screen
Nearly 100 languages available
English is now optional
Automatic Translation Importing
Easier right to left styling
Entity Translation API
Drupal 7
$field = field_info_field('field_foo');
$langcode = field_is_translatable($entity_type, $field) ? $active_langcode : LANGUAGE_NONE;
$value = $entity->field_foo[$langcode][0]['value'];
Drupal 8
$translation = $entity->getTranslation($active_langcode);
$value = $translation->field_foo->value;
Drupal 8: Views in Core
Views
Merged into core on
Oct. 22, 2012
No Wait for Views
Views in Core Highlights
Uses the new plugin system
All views go to disk
Views exported as YAML (using CMI)
HTML tables are responsive
Views Bulk Operations
Support for REST and data serialization
Homepage is a VIEW
Content and People Pages are views
Views In Core:
How You Can Help
Issue Tag: VDC
IRC: #drupal-vdc
D7 Problem:
Drupal assumes it will be delivering a blog-like HTML page
The Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI) aims to transform Drupal from a first-class CMS to a first-class REST server with a first-class CMS on top of it
Symfony2
HttpKernel component
Handles web requests
REST/serialization support
Expose any View as a serialized resource collection
Guzzle HTTP client library
Added to replace drupal_http_request()
Unit-Testable Code
Dependency Injection Container to help make code more unit testable
Drupal 8 is a web service
tpl.php files are gone
Now use html.twig files!
{% if title %}
{{ '!title'|t({ '!title': title }) }}
{% endif %}
{{ content }}
{% if description %}
{{ description }}
{% endif %}
Bye-bye template process layer and process functions
template_process_HOOK() MODULE_process_HOOK() THEME_process_HOOK()
BUT! preprocess remains
PSR-0 compatible
class loader in core
Symfony2 ClassLoader
Composer to handle Drupal Core PHP dependencies
Internet Explorer 6/7/8 no longer fully supported
Modules in /modules
Themes in /themes
/sites/all/, /sites/default/, and /sites/sitename.com/ are still supported
Drupal 8 Style Guide
New modules in core
Breakpoint
CKEditor
Config
Content Translation (entity translation)
Datetime
Edit
Editor
Email
Entity Reference
HAL
Layout
Link
Picture
REST
Serialization
Telephone
Tour
Views
Anthony Ferrara (ircmaxell)
Drupal 8 is getting more object oriented, but there still many, many hooks
What could still be coming?
PSR-X for module code
Improved block UI
Actual preview and responsive preview
Actual Image upload in WYSIWYG
Media Sprint on Sunday!
New? Find me, Brandon Neil, or Michael Hofmockel
Getting started with Media and File entity
(Fri 10 AM Main Lounge)
Current state of Media and File entity 2.x
(Sat 1 PM Main Lounge)
Great place to learn and contribute!
Thanks!
