Drupal 7What’s In It For You?

About Me• Web Developer

• Vertex, Inc.

• 10 Years

• 7-8 years ASP, MSSQL, .NET

• Drupal N00B

Agenda

• How did we get here?

• What’s in Drupal 7?

• How can you help?

How did we get here?

• Drupal 6 Release - 2/13/2008

• Dries selects Drupal 7 maintainer - Angie Byron (webchick)

• Code thaw

• Code freeze - 9/1/2009

• Release (2010?)

What’s New In Drupal 7?

Requirements

• PHP5

• MySQL 5 & PgSQL 8.3

• PDO

SimpleTest

• Automated code testing framework

• Test-driven development

• Testing bot (http://testing.drupal.org)

• Saves developers/reviewers/testers time

DBTNG

• PDO-based database abstraction layer

• Provides support for any DB PHP supports (mysql, sqlite, pgsql, oracle?, mssql?)

• Master-slave support

• Transaction support

• “Extra” database support

DBTNG

!e old way:

db_query(“INSERT INTO {node} VALUES title=’%s’, uid=%d”, “whatever”, 1);

!e new way:$nid = db_insert('node')  ->fields(array(    'title' => 'Example',    'uid' => 1,    'created' => REQUEST_TIME,  ))  ->execute();

D7UX

• Drupal 7 User Experience

• U of Baltimore and U of Minnesota usability testing

• Mark Boulton Design

• Admin toolbar, shortcut toolbar, editing in place.

• Many other usability improvements

• DEMO!

RDFa

• What is RDFa?

• Robot food

• Google and Yahoo now indexing RDFa

• Semantic Web

!eming

• Goodbye pushbutton, bluemarine. Hello Stark!

• Sensible CSS ids & classes

• More granular control over $content

• jQuery UI

Field API

• aka CCK in core

• but not CCK UI in core (yet!)

• $node->body is now a "eld

• Taxonomy terms now a "eld

Everything else

• File handling

• Stream wrappers (public:// private:// #ickr:// s3://)

• Image handling/image styles

• D7CX

• Lots more...

How Can You Help?

• Documentation

• Patch testing & review

• Patch submission

• Spread the word

!ank you• steve@stevekarsch.com

• www.stevekarsch.com

• twitter.com/karschsp

• http://drupal.org/user/138216