2% of the Web runs Drupal

20,000+ new Drupal 7 sites every month

Contributors to Drupal 7

954

Just one teeny little problem...

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

The mission...

Drupal needs to evolve, and quickly, from a first-class web CMS into a first-class REST server that includes a first-class web CMS.

Hello, Drupal 8.

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 assembly
• Content delivery

If you're a content strategist,
Drupal 8 speaks your language.

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

• Settings, site structure on disk
• Config import/export built in
• Modules can include default config
• Database is now leaner, more contented

Cleaner, themable installer

Beefier localization system

WYSI-WIN

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

In-Place Editing

No More Overlay

Ultra
Accessibility

WAI-ARIA all the things!

Keyboard control

Audio. No, for serious.

…And a new help system

Smoother, better,
more delicious

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 }}<p></p>
    </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.

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

Understand Your Site

• Content types and relationships
• Collections and assemblies
• Design elements
• Editorial roles, workflow
• Figure out the missing pieces in D8

Oh, and... Content.

• In-place upgrades for content are hard
• Contrib fields make it even trickier
• Most large sites rebuild and migrate

Migrate!

Content migration system in core

Migrate directly from Drupal 6 (Drupal 7 soon)

Migrate from any CMS, DB, etc…

Attend Dave's Session:

Future-Proof Your D7 Site

Contributors to Drupal 8

1984 and counting

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