Drupal: Rejoining the Herd

Drupal: Re-joining
the Herd
PHP South Coast 2016
Oliver Davies / @opdavies

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Drupal: Getting o
the Island

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Drupal: Re-joining
the Herd

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@opdavies
Senior Drupal Developer at
Former Drupal Association employee
Symfony hobbyist
Drupal Bristol organiser, PHPSW and
DrupalCamp Bristol co-organiser
First PHP conference!
Appnovation
Technologies

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Purpose
If you're new to Drupal, go and try it
If you've used it before, re-try it

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About Drupal
Drupal is an open source, PHP content management
system
16 years old
Drupal 8 was released in November 2015
Non-BC changes between major versions
Mostly procedural code prior to D8
Drupalisms

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Entities(ish)
Everything uses s
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No consistency between models

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Hooks
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Theme functions
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http://www.ekino.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/drupal8-meets-symfony.jpg

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http://jmolivas.com/slides/drupalcon2015bogota/speeding-up-drupal-8-development-using-drupal-
console/assets/images/larry-crell.jpg

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Symfony
Core developed using Symfony components
Minimum PHP version requirement
PHP code in classes
No more functions (almost)
Namespaces
PSR-0 PSR-4 Autoloading
Dependency injection
Full test coverage
Consistency!

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Symfony components
ClassLoader
Console
CssSelector
DependencyInjection
EventDispatcher
HttpFoundation
HttpKernel
Process
Routing
Serializer
Translation
Validator
Yaml
http://symfony.com/projects/drupal

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YAML
example.info (D7)
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Routing (D7)
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Routing (D8)
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Annotations
Used in some places - e.g. plugin system

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Twig
Default theme engine in D8
Replaces phptemplate
No more database queries in templates
No more theme functions

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Not Invented Here

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Proudly found elsewhere
jQuery *
Symfony
Symfony CMF
CKEditor
Zend
Composer
Stack
Guzzle
Twig
PhpUnit
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/tree/core/composer.json

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Composer
Drupal 8 using Composer for dependency
management and autoloading
Better Composer support since 8.1
Composer integration on Drupal.org
Drupal Composer projectroject template
Project template
Drupal Packagist

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Drupal via Composer
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https://github.com/platformsh/platformsh-example-drupal/blob/8.x/composer.json

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Contrib
- Symfony WebPro ler Bundle as a Drupal 8
module
- adds a GUI for Composer
dependencies
- PSR-4 support for Drupal 7
Web Pro ler
Composer Manager
xautoload

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Libraries rst
Non-Drupal problems being xed
outside of Drupal
Framework agnostic PHP libraries
Better exposure
Production tested code
Allows for backports

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Libraries rst

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Libraries First

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Drupal Console
A CLI tool for generating Drupal code and
interacting with Drupal 8 websites
Based on Symfony Console component
PSR-2 coding style, outputs Drupal code
style
http://drupalconsole.com

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Going forward
Semantic versioning
Feature releases every 6
months
https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle-overview

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More to do?
Still some Drupalisms
PSR-2
GitHub/Packagist
Drupal CI

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In Summary
Lowered the barrier to entry for PHP Developers
Made me a better Developer
More transferable knowledge and skills
Changed perspective

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Links
drupal.org
drupal.org/8
drupal-composer.org

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Questions?

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DrupalCamp Bristol
22nd - 24th July
phpsc-fri - £20 off the business day
phpsc-sat - £5 off the conference day
https://www.drupalcampbristol.co.uk

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Feedback
Joind.in: https://joind.in/talk/41d0f
Twitter: @opdavies

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