Drupal 8 Ready

Presentation at DrupalCon Prague, with Boris Gordon and Tim Eisenhuth.

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1. Drupal 8 Ready Christopher Skene & Boris Gordon, with Tim Eisenhuth & PreviousNext
2. •Changes and additions in Drupal 8 What we’ll cover?
3. •Changes and additions in Drupal 8 •Broken down by role What we’ll cover?
4. •Changes and additions in Drupal 8 •Broken down by role •And by technology group What we’ll cover?
5. •Changes and additions in Drupal 8 •Broken down by role •And by technology group •With learning resources What we’ll cover?
6. •Changes and additions in Drupal 8 •Broken down by role •And by technology group •With learning resources •And pointers to relevant DrupalCon sessions What we’ll cover?
8. previousnext.com. au/drupal8ready
9. About Us
10. •PreviousNext is Australia’s leading Drupal service provider •Worked on Australia’s largest Drupal projects •Extensive experience •Committed to Drupal Chris Skene & Boris Gordon PreviousNext
11. Tim Eisenhuth, Lee Rowlands, Kim Pepper and PreviousNext Everyone who’s written a nice, readable Drupal 8 changelog Chris’s wife and son, for putting up with him collating this while on holiday. Credits
12. Your skill in Drupal has increased by 1 point.
13. Notepads ready?
14. What’s new for Site Builders? Point-and-click, but not as we know it
15. Web & Front-end technologies
16. Need to know •Understand how schema.org structures content Resources •Schema.org •RDF Meta issue drupal.org/node/1778226 Web & front-end technologies Use of Schema.org schemas
17. Need to know • What are RESTful web services and how do we use them Resources • What is REST, explained using Starbucks: http://www.infoq. com/articles/webber-rest-, explained using Starbucks: http: //www.infoq.com/articles/webber-rest-workflow • REST: exposing data as RESTful web services drupal.org/node/1972016 • Serialization API in Drupal 8 drupal.org/node/1899138 Web & front-end technologies RESTful web services
18. Drupal
19. Need to know •Blocks get fields, revisions etc Sessions •Blocks from drop.org to Drupal 8 and beyond, @fgm Wed 10.45 – 11.45, Meeting Hall 1 Drupal New Block Concepts
20. Need to know •CKEditor in core •Aloha for in-place editing •Text formats have changed Sessions •Designing Drupal 8, @LewisNyman, @Bojhan, Wed 13.00 – 14.00, Club H Drupal Editing improvements
21. Need to know •Drupal gets “tours”. You can write them. Resources •Tour API documentation, drupal. org/node/1934442 •Creating a Tour for your module, previousnext. com.au/blog/tour-module-part-2-creating-tour- Drupal Tour API
22. Need to know •Config now stored in Yaml files, in your files directory •Can be exported/imported Resources • • Drupal Configuration import/export
23. Need to know •What a UUID looks like •Stop using “NID” (or similar) Resources •UUID module for Drupal 7, drupal.org/project/uuid •Drupal 8 UUID API documentation, Technology stack Universally Unique Identifiers for entities
24. •New render #type ‘table’ •HTML5 elements •‘hidden’ element •FAPI property #pattern for HTML5 pattern attribute Other interesting changes
25. •Drupal 8 for Site Builders, @swentel, Tue 10:45 – 11.45, Panorama Hall Site building For more information…
26. What’s new for Themers? The more things change, the more they stay the same
27. Web & front-end technologies
28. Need to know •How to use Twig for Drupal templating Resources •Twig, twig.sensiolabs.org •Drupal 8 Theme Guide, drupal.org/theme- guide/8 Web & front-end technologies Drupal templates use Twig (not PHP)
29. •Twig & the new theme layer in Drupal 8, Tue 17:00 - 18:00, Panorama Hall •Twig, a templating system for Web Designers, Wed 10:45 - 11:45, Congress Hall •TWIG It - ship it (Lab), Wed 13:00 - 15:15, Club DE - Adyax room Web & front-end technologies Twig sessions
30. Need to know •How to use Backbone.js Resources •backbonejs.org •drupal.org/project/backbone •Using Backbone.js with Drupal 8 & 7, @dealancer, Tue 15:45 – 16:45, North Hall - Web & front-end technologies Quick entity access with Backbone.js
31. Need to know • What is “Responsive Design” and how does it work • Use of Picture element • Use of Breakpoints Resources • Responsive Images Community Group, responsiveimages.org/ • Drupal 8 Picture API, goo.gl/a3JvKY • Drupal 7 Picture backport, drupal.org/project/picture Web & front-end technologies Responsive Design paradigms
32. Need to know •Drupal.announce() for speaking text •Drupal.tabbingManager assists with keyboard navigation Resources •Drupal.tabbingManager, drupal.org/node/2014545 •Drupal.announce(), drupal.org/node/2014521 Web & front-end technologies JavaScript Accessibility Features
33. Need to know •Drupal 8 uses jQuery 2.0 •API parity with jQuery 1.9 •But… no support for IE 6/7/8 •jQuery UI 1.10 Resources •What’s new in jQuery 1.9, http://goo.gl/j0f7wh •jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ Web & front-end technologies jQuery 2.0
34. Drupal
35. Need to know •What are the Drupal 8 CSS standards! Resources •CSS Coding Standards, drupal.org/node/1886770 Drupal CSS Coding Standards
36. Need to know •How to call namespaced Class functions •How to call static methods on Classes Resources •Introduction to PHP classes, www.lornajane.net/posts/2012/introduction-to-php- oop •How to Use PHP Namespaces, www.sitepoint.com/php-53-namespaces-basics/ Technology stack PHP Class and Namespace usage
37. •drupal_add_css & drupal_add_js are gone •drupal_set_title is gone •drupal_set_breadcrumb is gone, use the new Breadcrumb API Other changes
38. What’s new for Developers? Drupal is dead! Long live Drupal!
39. Technology stack
40. Need to know •Programming patterns •Model-View-Controller •Factory methods •Dependency injection •Namespaces & PSR-0 •Advanced Object-Oriented programming Technology stack Modern PHP programming
41. • PHP The Right Way, www.phptherightway.com • Introduction to PHP classes, goo.gl/glGwXD • How to Use PHP Namespaces, goo.gl/eiHtGW • • • Technology stack Modern PHP programming resources
42. •Don’t be STUPID, grasp SOLID, @ircmaxell, Wed 15:45 – 16:45, Congress Hall •Composing Drupal’s Future, @eclipsegc, Wed 15:45 – 16:45, Club H •Drupal Development using PHPStorm, @MikhailVink, Thu 10:45 – 11:45, Terrace 1 Technology stack Modern PHP programming sessions
43. Need to know •Symfony2 components form the basis for large parts of 8 •Drupal 8 doesn’t work like Symfony2 •Understanding Symfony2 will make you a better Drupal developer Technology stack Symfony
44. •Symfony website, symfony.com •Learn Symfony, symfony.com/doc/current/index.html Technology stack Symfony resources
45. •Standardization, the Symfony way, @fabpot, Thu 10:45 – 11:45, Congress Hall •From not-invented-here to proudly-found- elsewhere, @alexpott, Tue 13:00 – 14:00, Congress Hall Technology sessions Symfony-related sessions
46. • • • • Technology stack Composer
47. Need to know •How to create and edit YAML files •Lots of Drupal config is now in YAML Resources •en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML •yaml.org Technology stack YAML
48. • • • • • Technology stack PHPUnit
49. Guzzle – for fetching content from URLs (replaced drupal_http_request) EasyRDF – for parsing RDF into PHP Zend_Feed – for processing Feeds Technology stack New 3rd Party Libraries
50. Drupal
51. Need to know •How to find, create, load and work with Plugin’s Resources •Plugin Documentation drupal.org/node/2087839 •Plugin System Deep Dive, portland2013.drupal.org/session/drupal-8-plugin- system-deep-dive Drupal Plugin’s
52. •Drupal 8 – Info hook to plugin @pwolanin Wed 17.00 – 18.00, Club A Drupal Plugin sessions
53. Need to know • Entities are Classed objects with a defined Interface • Fields are bound to entities, and no longer shared across bundles • How to access entity properties and fields • How to define new Entities Resources • Entity API Change Record drupal.org/node/1400186 • Entity API documentation stub (incomplete), drupal.org/node/2078191 Drupal Entity API
54. Drupal Entity API
55. Need to know • How to load and save config data • Creating and working with Config Entities • How config data is managed Resources • • • • Drupal Configuration API & Config Entities
56. Need to know •How to write Symfony2 routes •hook_menu() only does menu’s now Drupal Routes
57. • • • • Drupal Routing resources
58. Need to know •Many Drupal functions are now “Services” •What are Services and how do they work •Using Services Resources •Symfony Service Container, goo.gl/FLsNLc •Introducing the Symfony Service Container, Fabien Drupal Services
59. Drupal Injected Services example
60. • • • • Drupal Object-oriented forms
61. Other new APIs • DateTime • Transliteration • Breadcrumbs • Modular authentication • Entity Translation • Image styles • Unicode • Crypt • Timer • New AJAX API • TempStore • Settings/Storage • History JS API
62. How did you score?
63. THANK YOU! WHAT DID YOU THINK? Locate this session at the DrupalCon Prague website: http://prague2013.drupal.org/schedule Click the “Take the survey” link