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What is Drupal?

Drupal is open source content management software maintained and developed by a community of more than 35,000 developers around the world who have contributed to the project.

It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others.

What is Open Source?

The defining principle of open source is that anyone can sell services and products created with the software, but not the software itself.

Who uses Drupal?

...and more than a million other organizations

Why is Drupal so widely used?

Put simply, it’s the quality of the software and the community behind it: hundreds of thousands of people around the world work on developing and maintaining the Drupal platform and ecosystem every second of every day.

This makes for an incredibly powerful, cutting-edge content management system (CMS).

What is Drupal 8?

Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal journey, and one that is substantially more powerful than previous versions.

Drupal 8 provides new ways to tailor and deploy content that looks great on any device. However you work with Drupal, there is something in Drupal 8 for you to love.

In this presentation, you will learn:

● What's coming in Drupal 8 for… ○ End users and clients ○ Site builders ○ Designers and themers ○ Developers

● When can I use it?

Drupal 8 improvements for end-users & clients

Authoring experience

Authoring improvement: WYSIWYG in Core

Authoring improvement: In-place editing

Authoring improvement: In-place editing

Authoring improvement:New content creation page

Authoring improvement:Preview on the frontend

It’s mobile-first

Responsive themes, images, breakpoints

Mobile-friendly administration

Represent this with a video. Maybe from Dries’ Prague slides? :)

AB: Submitted to the DA via their webform, since unfortunately it has to be on YouTube in order to reference from here. Bleh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOc1km2uEc

Improved accessibility

Mobile-first “overlay”

Drupal 8 improvements for site builders

Improved page building: Everything is in blocks

Improved page building: Place multiple copies of any block

Improved Data Modeling Tools: New field types like Entity Reference

…plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!

Improved Data Modeling Tools: New field types

Date/Datetime

Fieldable blocks

Improved Data Modeling Tools: New entity types

Form displays: customize the look and feel of data entry forms

Views in Core

Views = fully customizable...

With the Drupal 8 views, you can customize:

● Admin listings ● Sidebar content ● Image galleries ● Slideshows ● REST output

...with 0 lines of code!

Restyled administration interface

Multilingual improvements in Drupal 8

Community translation downloads

Language data tracking expanded

Translation on (almost) everything

Drupal 8 improvements for designers and themers

HTML5 Form Elements

New front-end libraries

Twig Example: node.html.twig<article{{ attributes }}> {{ title_prefix }} {% if not page %} <h2{{ title_attributes }}> <a href="{{ url }}" rel="bookmark">{{ label }}</a> </h2> {% endif %} {{ title_suffix }} {% if display_submitted %} <footer class="node__meta"> {{ author_picture }} <div class="node__submitted {{ author_attributes.class }}"{{ author_attributes|without('class') }}> {% trans %}Submitted by {{ author_name|passthrough }} on {{ date }}{% endtrans %} {{ metadata }} </div> </footer> {% endif %} <div class="node__content {{ content_attributes.class }}"{{ content_attributes|without('class') }}> {{ content|without('links') }} </div> {% if content.links %} <div class="node__links"> {{ content.links }} </div> {% endif %}</article>

1. HTML5 tags2. {{ print a variable }}3. {% logic(stuff) %}

Native Schema.org Output

Killed support for IE 6 & 7 (and most of 8)

Drupal 8 improvements for developers

Configuration management

dev stage production

Let’s see it in action.

https://github.com/webchickenator/drupal8-demo

Drush integration for automation

Web services

other systems or frameworks

desktop

Android applications

other Drupal sites

Flash components

iPhone applications

kiosk applications

● HttpFoundation ● HttpKernel● Dependency ● Injection ● EventDispatcher ● Routing ● Yaml

Symfony framework

GETting data out of Drupal: RESTful Web Services module

GETting data into Drupal: Guzzle

$client = \Drupal::httpClient();$config = \Drupal::config('3rdparty.settings');

// Format arguments for passing in URL.$arg = urlencode($argument);

// Pull data from 3rd party's REST API.$api_key = $config->get('api_key');$request = $client->get("http://3rdparty.com/$arg/?key=$api_key");

// Get the response and do something with it.$response = $request->send();$json = $response->json();

...

Getting off the island

Not invented here "Proudly Found Elsewhere"

● Much more modern, object-oriented code (classes, inheritance, interfaces, etc.)

● Embracing latest PHP standards (e.g. PSR-0, namespaces, traits)

● Using many “best of breed” external libraries: Composer, PHPUnit, Guzzle, Zend Feed Component...

Catch all of the improvements!

https://drupal.org/list-changes

Almost 3,300 people have

contributed to Drupal 8 so

far!

When will Drupal 8 be released?

November 19th, 2015

Drupal 8 Timeline

ReleaseAPI completionFeature development

Development opens

March 2011

Feature freezeDec 2012

Feature completeFeb 2013

API freezeJuly 2013

Drupal 8.0.0Nov 19 2015

AlphasDevelopment snapshots

BetasMajor APIs

locked down

RCsAPI and feature

complete

We are here

RC1Oct 2015

https://drupal.org/contribute

Where do we need help?

● Migration path ● Port contributed modules/themes● Translate Drupal 8● DOCUMENTATION! ● EXAMPLES! ● TOOLS! ● TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!

Alphas, (still have time tofix APIs!)

Betas/RCs (~late 2015)

Once these lines cross

(~2016)

Platform’s proven, but community’s

looking forward to Drupal 8.x/9.

Module / Theme Developer

Early Adopter / Launch in late-2015+

Late Adopter / Launch in 2016+

Conservative

When should I use Drupal 8?Keep your eyes on https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

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What’s this 8.0.0 talk?

● Drupal 8 will use semantic versioning● Drupal 8.1.0 will include new features and/or

APIs● New releases will be (mostly) backwards

compatible● New 8.x releases every 6 months (planned)● No need to wait years for new things● Bugfixes in minor releases, eg. 8.1.5

What about the upgrade path?

● Instead of an upgrade path, Drupal 8 will have a migration path!

● Some Drupal 6 migrations already in core, more in the works, see https://groups.drupal.org/imp

What about contributed modules?

● Check status of contrib module upgrades at: drupal.org/project/contrib_tracker

● To avoid upgrade pain, stick to well-vetted contributed modules over custom code.

● Other tips: www.acquia.com/blog/getting-your-site-ready-drupal-8

And my own modules?

● To start the upgrade of you own code, use drupal.org/project/drupalmoduleupgrader

● If you need to or want to start your module fresh, see drupal.org/project/console