About Me

Senior Developer at Lullabot

Twitter: @davereid

IRC: davereid

Maintain amost 2% of contrib modules

Core subsystem maintainer

Father of two cats and one boy

Objectives

For your site buildersand architects to makeinformed choices now

Ease pain of site userswhen switching to Drupal 8

User Interface

Spark Distribution

Navbar

Inline Editing

Official WYSIWYG: CKEditor

Responsive Bartik

https://drupal.org/project/responsive_bartik

HTML5

VIEWS IN CORE!

Administration Views

https://drupal.org/project/admin_views

Views Bulk Operations (light)

https://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations

Views Responsive Grid

Responsive Tables

Breakpoints

Responsive Pictures

Tours

Module page filtering

https://drupal.org/project/instantfilter

Simplified Menu Administration

https://drupal.org/project/simplified_menu_admin

Escape Admin

Caption Filter

https://drupal.org/project/caption_filter

<img data-align="center" data-caption="Test caption" ... />

Custom blocks (Bean)

https://drupal.org/project/bean

Reusable blocks: MultiBlock

https://drupal.org/project/multiblock

Field types

Entity reference

Telephone

Email (lite)

URL

Datetime (Date lite)

https://drupal.org/project/date

Use the Date (ISO format) field type. Not the Date or Date (Unix timestamp) field types.

For developers

Composer

For managing external auto-loadable (PSR-0/4) libraries

https://getcomposer.org

Composer

sites/all/composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "fale/isbn": "1.x-dev"
    }
}

Run composer install

// Make the sites/all/vendor libraries autoloadable.
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/sites/all/vendor/autoload.php';

$result = \Isbn\Check::is10($isbn);
        

https://drupal.org/project/composer_vendor

https://drupal.org/project/composer_manager

API and Plugins

Many ways to do the same thing in Drupal 7.

Hooks

/**
 * Implements hook_mymodule_hook_info().
 */
function example_mymodule_hook_info() {
  $info['example'] = array(
    'label' => t('Example implementation'),
    'callback' => 'example_mymodule_callback',
    'settings form' => 'example_mymodule_form',
  );
  return $info;
}

CTools plugins

function example_ctools_plugin_directory($module, $plugin) {
  if ($module == 'mymodule' && $plugin == 'hook') {
    return "plugins/$module/$plugin";
  }
}

// plugins/example/hook/example_implementation.inc
$plugin = array(
  'title' => t('Example implementation'),
  'class' => 'ExampleMyModuleHookImplementation',
);

// plugins/example/hook/ExampleImplementation.class.php
class ExampleMyModuleHookImplementation {
  // Does stuff.
}

Plugins in D7

class MyModuleHookPluginInterface {
  public static function getInstance($config = array());
  public function getDefaults();
  public function process($config);
}

abstract class MyModuleHookPluginBase extends MyModuleHookPluginInterface {
  public funciton getInstnace($config = array()) {
    $class = get_called_class();
    return new $class($config);
  }

  public function getDefaults() {
    return array();
  }

  abstract public function process($config);
}

Plugins in D7

function example_mymodule_hook_info() {
  $info['example'] =
    'label' => t('Example implementation'),
    'class' => 'ExampleMyModuleHookPlugin',
  );
  return $info;
}

files[] = lib/ExampleMyModuleHookPlugin.php

class ExampleMyModuleHookPlugin extends MyModuleHookPluginBase {
  public function process($config) {
    // Do stuff!
  }
}

The Other Stuff

Configurable view/display modes

https://drupal.org/project/entity_view_mode

CMI

Migrate is your friend

https://drupal.org/project/migrate

https://drupal.org/project/migrate_d2d

RESTful Web Services

https://drupal.org/project/restwsNOT services module

Translation

PSR-0 / PSR-4

More More Things

Things you should probably stop using

We don't want no scrubs