What's wrong with Drupal 7?

2% of the Web runs Drupal

20,000+ new Drupal 7 sites every month

Contributors to Drupal 7

954

Time to kick some ass
in Drupal 8

Just one teeny little problem...

Drupal is an 13 year old, PHP 4-based extensible Slashdot clone originally written by a Belgian college kid.

Drupal 8 is a new generation
PHP framework/CMS

For the site owner

Drupal 8 is finally useful

Drupal 7 gave us Fields API...

... Drupal 8 gives us Fields to use

• Entity Reference
• Date
• Link
• Email
• Telephone

Views in core

/admin/content

Why Views matters

Drupal 8

• Content modeling
• Content assembly
• Content curation

If you're a content strategist,
Drupal 8 is the system for you.

Configuration Management

Because database config is for lusers

Features: Fail

Poor deployment tool

...Because it's not a deployment tool

Drupal 7 has no common configuration system!

Configuration system

• Config on-disk
• Config staging/import built in
• Features/ctools exportables no longer exist

All right there, right from the new multilingual installer...

For the end user

zOMG WYSIWYG in core!!1!

Best

Accessibility

Ever

WAI-ARIA all the things!

Keyboard control

Correction...

Those responsible for the previous
videos have been sacked.

Bye bye Overlay...

Tour module to the rescue

(aka "Help module wishes it were this cool")

For themers

Out with the old...

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

In with the new

HTML5 Forms

Lines of Javascript by default: 0

Oh wow, such libraries!

• 
• 

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>

node.html.twig

<article id="node-{{ node.id }}" class="{{ attributes.class }} clearfix"{{ attributes }}>

  {{ title_prefix }}
  {% if not page %}
    <h2{{ title_attributes }}>
      <a href="{{ node_url }}" rel="bookmark">{{ label }}
    </h2>
  {% endif %}
  {{ title_suffix }}

  {% if display_submitted %}
    <footer>
      {{ user_picture }}
      <p class="submitted">{{ submitted }}

    </footer>
  {% endif %}

  <div{{ content_attributes }}>
    {# We hide links now so that we can render them later. #}
    {% hide(content.links) %}
    {{ content }}
  </div>

  {{ content.links }}

</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.

For developers

OOP: there it is

PHP 5.4 architecture

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

Not Invented Here

Proudly Invented Elsewhere

Proudly Invented Elsewhere

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

Plugins

• ctools plugins, but good
• Learn once, apply everywhere —Lee Rowlands
• Interface-driven, self-documenting

Entities/Nodes

Unified API... finally!

PHPUnit

RESTful pipeline

... HTML is just REST

HAL API for entities

For existing users

Upgrading?

• Upgrading the DB from 6->7 was hard
• Upgrading the DB to Drupal 8 would be harder
• So... don't

Migrate!

Migration system in core

Migrate directly from Drupal 6 (Drupal 7 soon)

Migrate from any system

Want Drupal 8 yet?

Sorry, have to wait...

Contributors to Drupal 8

1903 and counting

Local heroes

Wait, where are the Kiwis?

WANTED: Dead or Alive

• Testers
• Documentation
• <div> Elimination Squad
• Performance testing/profiling
• PHP/Javascript developers
• Accessibility gurus/users
• Sysadmins/devops for testbot
• Sprint hosts/sponsors