Drupal and Us

Presented by Larry Garfield (@Crell)

You should be upfront about what you're doing.

Where does that leave the small player?

The right to innovate is not a privilege to be restricted to a tiny minority

—Free Software Magazine, 2005

(A Drupal site, by the way...)

Who uses Drupal?

We use Drupal

Needs to be approachable

Unusable tools are useless

Big sites?

Big shops?

Big companies?

The Point of Open Source is to give everyone big and small access to the same tools on a level playing field.

Drupal 8 is a new generation
PHP Platform

Drupal 7

PHP 4 architecture

Drupal 8

PHP 5.4 architecture

Drupal 7

Everything is a Page

Drupal 8

Everything is a response

Drupal 7

All home grown

Drupal 8

Embrace other communities and tools

Drupal 7

A good start for a CMS

Drupal 8

Build real-world sites right away

For site builders

Build real sites with core

Drupal 7 gave us Field API...

... Drupal 8 expands the toolbox

Entity Reference
Date
Link
Email
Telephone

Views in core

/admin/content

Drupal 8

Content modeling
Content editing
Content assembly
Content delivery

For everyone, out of the box

Configuration management

Mixing content and config == Pain

Features: Fail

Poor deployment tool

...Because it's not a deployment tool

Drupal 7 has no common configuration system!

The new Config API

Real configuration API
Config import/export built in
Modules can include default config
Database is now leaner, more contented

Translation in Drupal 7

admin_language
fallback_language_negotation
l10n_install
l10n_update
entity_translation
title
variable (suite)
i18n (suite)
i18nviews
webform_localization (et al)
stringoverrides
transliteration

And it's still incomplete!

Translation in Drupal 8

Deeper, more robust system... in Core

Everyone can build
multi-lingual sites from day 1

For content editors

Rich editing experience

CKEditor built in
Automatic configuration, sensible defaults
Content editing forms streamlined

No More Overlay

Ultra
Accessibility

WAI-ARIA all the things!

Keyboard control

And…

All built in and automatic

…And a new help system

For themers

Out with the old...

(There's an IE8 module if you really need)

In with the new

Responsive Design

HTML5 Forms

Lines of Javascript by default: 0

Twig

node.tpl.php


<div id="node-<?php print $node->nid; ?>" class="<?php print $classes; ?> clearfix"<?php print $attributes; ?>>
  <?php print $user_picture; ?>
  <?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
  <?php if (!$page): ?>
    <h2<?php print $title_attributes; ?>><a href="<?php print $node_url; ?>"><?php print $title; ?></a></h2>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <?php print render($title_suffix); ?>

  <?php if ($display_submitted): ?>
    <div class="submitted">
      <?php print $submitted; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <div class="content"<?php print $content_attributes; ?>>
    <?php
      hide($content['comments']);
      hide($content['links']);
      print render($content);
    ?>
  </div>

  <?php print render($content['links']); ?>
  <?php print render($content['comments']); ?>

</div>


{% set classes = [
    'node--type-' ~ node.bundle|clean_class,
    node.isPromoted() ? 'node--promoted',
  ] %}
<article{{ attributes.addClass(classes) }}>
  {{ title_prefix }}
  {% if not page %}
    <h2{{ title_attributes }}>
      <a href="{{ url }}" rel="bookmark">{{ label }}</a>
    </h2>
  {% endif %}
  {{ title_suffix }}

  {% if display_submitted %}
    <div{{ author_attributes.addClass('node__submitted') }}>
      {% trans %}Submitted by {{ author_name|passthrough }} on {{ date|passthrough }}{% endtrans %}
      {{ metadata }}
    </div>
  {% endif %}

  <div{{ content_attributes.addClass('node__content') }}>
    {{ content|without('links') }}
  </div>
  {% if content.links %}
    <div class="node__links">
      {{ content.links }}
    </div>
  {% endif %}
</article>

And one more thing...

Now with 25% fewer divs^*

* Compared to the previous leading Drupal.
Actual divs may vary by custom theme.
Offer void on IE 6.

Under the hood

PHP 5.4 architecture

Interface-driven development
Loose coupling
"Hack core without hacking core"
Fewer Drupalisms

Not Invented Here

Proudly Invented Elsewhere

Symfony2 Components (HttpFoundation, HttpKernel, DependencyInjection, EventDispatcher, Routing, Serializer, Validator, Yaml)
Symfony CMF
Zend Feed
Doctrine Annotations
Guzzle
EasyRDF
Twig