Why Drupal? Или почему Symfony разработчику

стоит посмотреть на Drupal

AGENDA

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• Drupal overview

• Key Benefits in Drupal 8

• Defects in Drupal

• Summary

WHAT IS DRUPAL?

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• Drupal is a content management framework.

• Big community.

CONTENT STRUCTURE CONFIGURATION

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• Make Models / Entities definition

• Get CRUD for them out of the box

VIEWS & WHY YOU NEED THEM

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• VIEWS: Graphical user interface to make views of modeled data

• You need them if:

– You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some

particular type.

– You want to display list of articles with data from related authors,

author’s friends, authors’ friend’s article, all above with some sorting or

filtering.

– You want to be able to make bulk operations with the content

REUSABILITY

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• Data model and views can be exported / imported using

configuration management in Drupal 8 or using Features in Drupal 7

A LOT OF FEATURES FROM THE BOX

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• A lot of modules (9562 - d7, 541 - d8):

– Panels

– organic groups with permissions for each group

– Notifications

– content import/export

– Panels

– Web forms

– Rules / Actions

• A lot of integrations with third party systems

KEY BENEFITS IN DRUPAL 8

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• Symfony2 in core

• HttpKernel

• Routing

• EventDispatcher

• DependencyInjection

• Http foundation

• Debug Log

• Process (shell_exec)

• Serializer

• Translation

• Yaml configs

NOT IN DRUPAL 8 CORE

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• Kernel

– FrameworkBundle

– SwiftMailerBundle

– Service configuration

– WebProfilerBundle

• Form

• Config

• BrowserKit

WEB SERVICES

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• Exposes entities and other resources via a RESTful web API

• Allow views to be represented as resource

INLINE EDITING

• Allows you to select any editable element on the page and edit it

in-place

DEFECTS IN DRUPAL

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• No clean deployment and staging concept

• Flexible/Slow DB structure.

• Inconsistent cache layers

SUMMARY

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• Fast prototyping

• Problems with coding in Drupal 7, which should be fixed in Drupal 8

• Slow/Flexible system

QUESTIONS / COMMENTS?

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• E-mail: YDoroshchuk@grossum.com

• Skype: yarroha