1. Bean, BEAN and more than half a bean

2. What is BEAN?
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Block Entities Aren't Nodes
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Another way of using the Entity API
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Creates customised, fieldable blocks

3. Why use BEAN?
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Provide simple generic types for content
editors
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Allows content to be used more easily as
blocks for themers
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Avoid creating lots of custom blocks

4. A couple of ways of using it
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Hello World
− https://drupal.org/sandbox/nick_schuch/1676128
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Remote publishing
− https://drupal.org/sandbox/iaine/1949494

5. References
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The Bean project:
− http://drupal.org/project/bean
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Bean reference:
− https://drupal.org/node/1434622
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Hello World
− https://drupal.org/sandbox/nick_schuch/1676128
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A Hello World example:
− http://previousnext.com.au/blog/introduction-bean-
module

6. Thanks for listening
Iain Emsley
@iainemsley
Austgate.co.uk

7. Thanks for listening
Iain Emsley
@iainemsley
Austgate.co.uk