<p>Drupal 8 is on the way. And we know you want to know -- what does this mean for me?!</p> <p>Don't fear, Angie 'webchick' Byron is here! This one hour webinar will provide you with detailed overviews on the major changes in Drupal 8, as well as several short video demos that will give you a glimpse into a few of the newest features and capabilities. Angie will explain what D8 means for:</p> <ul> <li>Site Builders: See Views in Core, more (and better) blocks, improved entity and field features...the list goes on!</li> <li>Front-end Developers: We're talking HTML5, libraries, accessibility enhancements, new themes and UI elements, and faster performance, to name a few.</li> <li>Back-end Developers: A new configuration management system, a completely rehauled Entity API, improved caching, and new built-in web services features.</li></ul>

1. Everything You Need to Know About
the Top 8 Changes in Drupal 8
Angela "@webchick" Byron
May 26, 2015

2. About me

3. What are we doing here?
• Go through top 8 changes for Drupal 8, in order of
geekiness. ;)
• Walk through some of the bigger API changes in
D8 for module developers
• Answers to frequently asked questions
• Q&A

4. 1. Improved Authoring
Experience

9. 2. Mobile First

12. 3. Site Builder
Improvements

13. Views in Core!

14. What is Views module?
• Create fully customizable:
• Admin listings
• Sidebar content
• Image galleries
• Slideshows
• XML/JSON output
• …with zero lines of code!

15. Better Blocks

16. New Field Types

17. 4. Multilingual++

19. Translatable Everything!
• Content
• Blocks
• Menus
• User Profiles
• Taxonomy
• Views
• Image styles
• Text formats
• Comments
• Feeds
• …and more!
• No contributed
modules needed!

20. 5. Configuration
Management

24. 6. Front-end developer
improvements

26. HTML5 Forms

27. PHPTemplate is now Twig
7.x: page.tpl.php 8.x: page.html.twig
<div id="page-wrapper">
<div id="page">
<div id="header">
<div class="section clearfix">
<?php if ($logo): ?>
<a href="<?php print $front_page; ?>"
title="<?php print t('Home'); ?>"
rel="home" id="logo">
<img src="<?php print $logo; ?>"
alt="<?php print t('Home'); ?>"
/>
</a>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="layout-container">
<header role="banner">
{% if logo %}
<a href="{{ front_page }}"
title="{{ 'Home'|t }}"
rel="home">
<img src="{{ logo }}"
alt="{{ 'Home'|t }}"/>
</a>
{% endif %}
• Friendlier syntax for designers
• Variables auto-escaped for better security
http://twig.sensiolabs.org

28. No more (core) support for
IE 6, 7, & 8

29. 7. Web Services

31. 8. Modern, OO Code

32. Warning:
Things are about to
get... geeky.

33. "Getting off the Island"

34. Modern PHP Best Practices
• PHP 5.4+
• Classes/Interfaces
• Namespaces
• Traits
• Dependency Injection
• Most PSR-* standards

35. Powered by Symfony2
Tutorial: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/50/create-your-own-
framework-on-top-of-the-symfony2-components-part-1

36. …and dozens of other "best
of breed" libraries

37. …and dozens of other
librariesA peek under the hood

38. YAML, YAML everywhere
7.x: example.info 8.x: example.info.yml
name = Example
description = "Example module"
core = 7.x
files[] = example.test
config = admin/config/example
dependencies[] = node
name: Example
type: module
description: "Example module"
core: 8.x
config: admin.example
dependencies:
- node
• New required "type" property
• No more files[] (we'll get to that later)
• Paths now have machine names to
help prevent breakage
(we'll get to that later, too)
Drupalism: Kinda-
Sorta-INI-Like
"Proudly Invented
Elsewhere": YAML

39. Classes, classes everywhere
sites/all/modules
example
▼
▼
example.test
7.x
modules
example
▼
▼
8.x
src▼
ExampleForm.php
ExampleInterface.php
ExampleController.php
…
Pages, forms, blocks, etc. are now all object-oriented.

40. "Hello World" in Drupal 7
function example_menu() {
$items['hello'] = array(
'title' => 'Hello world',
'page callback' => '_example_page',
'access callback' => 'user_access',
'access arguments' => 'access content',
);
return $items;
}
function _example_page() {
return t('Hello world.');
}
example.module
Drupalism:
"ArrayPIs" ;)

41. "Hello World" in Drupal 8
example.hello:
path: '/hello'
defaults:
_content: 'DrupalexampleExampleController::hello'
requirements:
_permission: 'access content'
example.routing.yml
<?php
namespace Drupalexample;
use DrupalCoreControllerControllerBase;
/**
* Returns responses for Example module routes.
*/
class ExampleController extends ControllerBase {
public function hello() {
return new Response($this->t('Hello world.'));
}
}
src/ExampleController.php "Proudly Invented
Elsewhere":
- YAML
- PSR-4 Class Autoloader
- OO code

42. Defining a block: 7.x
example.module
<?php
function example_block_info() {
$blocks['example'] = array(
'info' => t('Example block'),
);
return $blocks;
}
function example_block_view($delta = '') {
$block = array();
switch ($delta) {
case 'example':
$block['subject'] = t('Example block');
$block['content'] = array(
'hello' => array(
'#markup' => t('Hello world'),
),
);
break;
}
return $block;
}
Drupalism: "Mystery
Meat" APIs based on
naming conventions

43. Defining a block: 8.x
<?php
namespace DrupalexamplePluginBlock;
use DrupalblockBlockBase;
/**
* Provides the Example block.
*
* @Block(
* id = "example",
* admin_label = @Translation("Example block"),
* category = @Translation("Example")
* )
*/
class ExampleBlock extends BlockBase {
public function build() {
return array('hello' => array(
'#markup' => $this->t('Hello world.')
));
}
}
src/Plugin/Block/ExampleBlock.php
"Proudly Invented
Elsewhere":
- Annotations
- APIs defined by
Interfaces

44. Read more about it!
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/8
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/developer/api

45. Every API change in Drupal 8
https://www.drupal.org/list-changes

46. Summary of Awesomeness
• Improved Authoring
Experience
• Mobile First
• Views, expanded
content modeling
• Multilingual++
• Configuration
Management
• Twig & HTML5
• Web Services
• Modern, OO Code
• …and literally hundreds
of other improvements!
• Full scoop: https://
www.acquia.com/
resources/ebooks/
ultimate-guide-drupal-8

47. More than 2,900
people have contributed to
Drupal 8 so far!

48. Answers To Your Burning
Drupal 8 Questions!

49. When will Drupal 8 be
released?

50. When is "when it's
ready"?
Sometime after this graph hits zero.
https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/get-involved

51. What's left in that list?
• Performance fixes/
improvements
• Security fixes/improvements
• Beta-to-beta upgrade path
• Future-proofing (PHP7,
Symfony 3, etc.)

52. beta -> rc -> 8.0.0
• While count of critical issues >
0, create monthly beta releases
(we are here!)
• If critical issues === 0, start bi-
weekly release candidates
(same as D6/D7 release
windows)
• Only critical fixes or extremely
non-disruptive (e.g. docs)
patches committed during
RC, to prevent regressions.
• Once count, rate, and nature of
criticals seem manageable, set
a release date >= 3 weeks later.
https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle#rc
alpha
release beta RC1
we are here!
x
“WHEN IT’S READY”

53. What happens after 8.0.0?
• Drupal 6 support dropped 3 months
after Drupal 8.0.0's release.
• Bug fix/security releases continue
on monthly schedule as now in D6/D7.
• New "feature releases" of Drupal 8
every 6 months (8.1.x, 8.2.x…) with
non-BC breaking improvements.
• Drupal 9 not branched until much
later, when there's enough
"meat" (completed change proposals
which can't be committed to 8.x) to
make a compelling product
• Drupal 8 enters "LTS" mode (security
fixes only) after Drupal 9.0.0
D6 SUPPORT
ENDS
8.2.08.1.0
NEW
FEATURES
NEW
FEATURES
…
NEW
FEATURES

54. What about upgrades?
• Upgrade path between 8.x versions
• Not supported in core yet; see https://www.drupal.org/project/
head2head in contrib for now
• Migration path between major versions (6/7 => 8)
• Build out your Drupal 8 site as a new site, then migrate content,
users, etc. over.
• Drupal 6 => 8 migrations already in! Drupal 7 => 8 migrations
are in progress.
• Must port your own custom code; stick with well-used contrib
modules if you can!

55. Kick-start your custom code
porting
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalmoduleupgrader

56. When can I use D8?

57. Some early adopters are
already using it…

58. When will most people use
D8?
Module/Theme
developer
*Right now*!
(still have time to
fix APIs!)
Majority
Once these lines
cross
total
D8
D7
Early adopter
Once beta-to-beta
upgrade path supported
(port your own contribs)
Conservative
Platform’s proven, but
community’s looking
forward to Drupal 9.
Let the community be your guide.
https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

59. I'm building a new site now.
Should I start with D7 or D8?
http://www.slideshare.net/horncologne/
why-drupal-8-why-now-aprmay-2015
Drupal 7 Drupal 8
Public facing Internal / R&D / Prototype
Rapid deployment Less urgent
Large, complex needs Can be done with what's in core
Full feature set Brochureware
Mission critical Experimental
Limited development team
Expert development team,
comfortable patching upstream
Developers more comfortable
with procedural code
Developers more comfortable
with OO code / Symfony

60. Sticking with D7?
Here's how to get D8 hotness today!
Drupal 8 Core Feature Drupal 7 Contrib Equivalent
WYSIWYG CKEditor: https://drupal.org/project/ckeditor
In-Place Editing Quick Edit: https://drupal.org/project/quickedit
Responsive Toolbar
“Mobile Friendly Navigation Toolbar"
https://drupal.org/project/navbar
Responsive Front-End
Theme
Omega, Zen, Adaptive, etc. base themes
Responsive Admin
Theme
Ember: https://drupal.org/project/ember
Responsive Images Picture: https://drupal.org/project/picture
Responsive Tables Responsive Tables: https://drupal.org/project/responsive_tables
Simplified Overlay Escape Admin: https://drupal.org/project/escape_admin
Multilingual
Internationalization: https://www.drupal.org/project/i18n
Entity Translation: https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_translation
Better Blocks Bean: https://www.drupal.org/project/bean
Configuration
Management
Features: https://www.drupal.org/project/features
Web Services RESTful Web Services: https://www.drupal.org/project/restws

61. Thanks! :)
Questions?