Drupal, the Future, and You

Presented by Larry Garfield and Jeff Eaton

@Crell

• Senior Architect, Palantir.net
• Drupal 8 Web Services Lead
• Drupal Representative, PHP-FIG
• Advisor, Drupal Association
• Loveable pedant

@eaton

• Digital Strategist, Lullabot
• Co-author, Using Drupal 1^st edition
• Host, Insert Content Here
• Drupal.org Content Working Group
• Content strategy rabble-rouser

The world as we know it

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 8 is a new generation
PHP framework/CMS

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 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

For content editors

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

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

Planning to upgrade?

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

Want Drupal 8 yet?

Sorry, have to wait...

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