Drupal 8: Huge wins, a Bigger Community, and why you (and I) will Love it

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Drupal 8: Huge wins, a Bigger Community, & why you (and I) will

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• Viví en Querétaro in 2003 for 4 months

• I spoke about 5 words of Spanish. These 5 words did not include hermano nor amigo

• Learned of the custom of kissing a women when greeting her… when a woman kissed me on the street

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Intro !

PHP Before Now (The Desert of the Real)

(1) !

Sharing and working together was impossible

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rossap/8059476135

Every PHP Framework, CMS and Project builds everything from scratch

Sharing was nearly impossible

http://garfieldtech.com/presentations/sunshinephp2014-php-pie

(2) !

If PHP is big, we’ll thrive If PHP is small, we’ll die

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Communities

PHP is HUGE! Right?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitty-kat/

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PHP > Ruby

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Fragmentation:It makes us tiny, isolated,

and misguided trend-setters

https://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273913228

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PHP projects vs Rails

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CakePHP

I don’t want a damned CakePHP Plugin!

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CakePHP

CodeIgniter

I want a PHP library I can use in any project

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Fragmentation

• More information we have to know !

• Difficult to hire !

• Disjointed forums, StackOverflow !

• Interoperability? What’s that?

Chapter 1 !

Drupal is PHP PHP is Drupal

PHP is in the middle of a Renaissance

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kafkapie/3761271639

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/5713-copypastahttp://garfieldtech.com/presentations/sunshinephp2014-php-pie

• Shares code !

• works together !

• uses consistent standards !

• projects are interoperable

Now: The Community

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Drupal has missed all of the progress… until now

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Drupal 8 embraces the new tools and standards…

… and has joined the PHP community as a member and leader

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Chapter 2 !

Drupal 8: New Libraries

https://www.flickr.com/photos/spam/5086168739

Drupal 7: !

drupal_http_request()

“Drupal's current outgoing-HTTP capability is, to be polite,

minimal. We have one small function with a lousy API that

can do basic requests, but that's it. If we want to be serious about

web services we need strong bidirectional HTTP support.”

https://drupal.org/node/1447736

Drupal 8’s HTTP client is *incredible*

It has been developed for over 3 years

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Has 2000+ commits

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Was entirely sponsored by Amazon

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And Drupal developersdidn’t need to waste any

time making it!

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Meet Guzzle!

An independent PHP library that’s great at making

HTTP requests

drupal_http_request Guzzle

Available Documentation comments above the function 9 chapter book

Commits ~40 ~2000

Contributors ~20 131

Used by Drupal All PHP devs

Features Some Many!

Compare & Contrast

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Drupal 8:

What fantastic libraries do you get for no effort?

PHPUnit• Unit-testing library that’s used

across all of PHP

• Some cool German guy spent years building this for you!

• Core has ~5000 unit tests that run in 18 seconds

• Easily use unit tests (finally) in your project

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Assetic

• JavaScript and CSS processing,minifying and compiling library

• Used in the Symfony Frameworkand other places

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• Templating engine used forDrupal 8 theming

• Built by 163 contributors, with 2000 commits over 5 years and 63 releases

Twig

Loved by:

• High-Quality library for reading andwriting RSS and ATOM feeds

• Written by someone else (score!)

• A large chapter of already-written documentation

Zend Feed

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And Finally…

Symfony Components

Symfony is just a collection of decoupled

PHP libraries

Symfony libraries in Drupal

• ClassLoader • Debug • DependencyInjection • EventDispatcher • HttpFoundation • HttpKernel

• Process • PropertyAccess • Routing • Serializer • Translation • Validator • Yaml

These are just tools that Drupal uses, instead of writing

everything from scratch

Drupal 7 !

“There’s a module for that”

… and if there’s not, the Drupal community must write one

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PHP

Drupal 7

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Drupal 8 !

“There’s a PHP library for that”

… and if there’s not, the entire PHP community can work on it together

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Drupal 8

Drupal 7

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Chapter 3 !

Drupal 8: Hard to Learn?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658254172

Drupal 8 is much more object-oriented

Difficult to Learn?

Drupal 7 Deep Arrays

Drupal 8 Objectsvs.

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Drupal 7

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Drupal 8

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Drupal 7

Drupal 8

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

• Learn Drupalisms (Drupal-specific practices) • Non-Drupal developers have a learning curve • New devs will copy and paste functions and arrays

• Learn practices used across almost all languages • Non-Drupal developers feel at home • New devs will copy and paste functions and YAML

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Drupal 8: good for you

Learn these new, highly-needed skills all at once as one big community

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/309391023

Bonus

Knowing Drupal 8 means !

Knowing Silex

Use the same skills to build a CMS or a custom application

If you know Drupal !

you understand Symfony

or Drufony@weaverryan

If you know Symfony !

you understand Drupal

or Symfal@weaverryan

Hundreds of pages of documentation exist, thanks to

Symfony, Guzzle and other libraries

Drupal has a lot of work to do, but has a head-start!

Learning Drupal 8

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Chapter 4 !

New Paradigms mean New Possibilities

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New Paradigms

• Object-Oriented Code

• Interfaces

• Dependency Injection

• Composer

• Namespaces

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Possible in Drupal 8

Completely replace any part of core. That’s supported natively

Possible in Drupal 8

Easier Future Upgrades

Possible in Drupal 8

Add/Remove entire systems and create

distributions

Drupal for Blogging?

Include Entity/Field, Views

Remove Most admin features

Focus Node Posting System

No blocks CMS

Remove Blocks

Focus Use only Twig for theming/layout

Syndication CMS

Include Atom/RSS syndication

Remove All concepts of content beyond feeds

Focus Process and serve feeds

One Drupal cannot work perfectly for everyone

https://www.flickr.com/photos/generalnoir/391009102

But many Drupals is now possible

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hjmediastudios/7883634326

One Technology used for many

platforms?

A Proven Model

Best!Use-Case Uses Symfony?

Silex Small sites yes

Laravel Quicker medium/large sites yes

Symfony Framework

Enterprise medium/large sites yes

Drupal CMS yes

Drupal 8?

Best!Use-Case Uses Drupal?

Drupal Small Small sites yes

Drupal Medium Quicker medium/large sites yes

Drupal Enterprise Enterprise medium/large sites yes

Will this happen? !

It’s up to the community, but finally

possible

Chapter 5 !

New Features/Goodies

My 9 Favorite things!

(9) !

Spark: Inline-editing

(8) !

Nodes available as JSON

(7) !

Mobile Ready: Responsive and with an API

Responsive!

(6) !

Multilingual support out of the box

(5) !

Views in Core (Drupal 8 with views on day 1)

(4) !

CKEditor in Core

(3) !

CMI: Configuration Management

Configuration Management

• Configuration moved from the databaseto YAML files

• Engineered with deployment in mind

• Deploy configuration changes from stagingto production

• Put configuration into version control

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(2) !

HTTP Caching (thanks to Symfony)

(1) !

Symfony’s Web Debug Toolbar

Via a community module

https://drupal.org/project/webprofiler

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https://drupal.org/project/webprofiler

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https://drupal.org/project/webprofiler

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https://drupal.org/project/webprofiler

Are you excited for Drupal 8 yet?!?

Chapter 6 !

Doing things the Drupal 7 way

The Revolutionary Tape Player

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_deck

http://www.amazon.ca/MAXELL-MDV-RW1-Cassette-Rewinder/dp/B00006HOEF

Would you start a company in 2014 that sold

Walkman accessories?

PHP 4

Would you write a PHP 4 book

today?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-PHP4-Programmer-Wankyu-Choi/dp/0764543644

Would you build a new CMS on

PHP 4?

Drupal 7 is a CMS built on PHP 4 technology

Drupal 7 Drupal 8

Technology PHP 4 (2000-2007) PHP 5.4 (2011-)

Practices Outdated, Drupal-specific Best-Practices, applicable across languages

Non-Drupal devs Code looks unfamiliar Code feels familiar

Developer Experience Arrays and hooks Interfaces, IDE code-

completion, shared code

Drupal 7 is good, but we can’t keep

doing things the Drupal 7 way forever

Drupal 8: !

Innovate away from old technolog, or die with it

Drupal 8 chooses to Innovate

A Stronger Community

Higher Quality Features

New Skills for You

More Tools for You

New Possibilities

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