Doing more with features, tip for feature-driven development

1. http://tiny.cc/9r0s3
Features++
Doing more with features, tips for
feature-driven development
By Jay Callicott
Mediacurrent Consultant
Drupalcamp Atlanta 2010
Oct 2, 2010

2. Features++ Outline
Features Extra
Strongarm settings
Context & Features
Panels & Features
Adding stuff that isn't exportable
Real World Examples!

3. Features Extra Module
http://drupal.org/project/features_extra
Export items that the features module
does support
Adds 'machine_name' option to taxonomy,
nodequeue, etc
Still in development =(
Exportables
Taxonomy (vocab & terms)
Blocks
Nodequeue

4. Features Extra Nodequeue
Adds a machine
name field

5. Stongarm settings
http://drupal.org/project/strongarm
Strongarm lets you override settings
A must-have module!
Allows you to export more settings
Anything in variable table
When exporting a content type, strongarm
will automatically export many node type
settings

6. Stongarm settings
this can be overwhelming...

7. Stongarm + content type
Auto-adding node
type settings

8. Context & Features
http://drupal.org/project/context
Context is used primarily for block
placement (admin/build/block
replacement)
Exports to features out of the box
(Screenshots next)

9. Context Example Screenshot

10. Adding Context to a Feature

11. Panels & Features
Panels export to features easily
Falls under 'Panels' or 'Page Manager'
in dropdown in components
I like panels for node layouts!
(screenshots next)

12. Panels Feature Example
context
placed
blocks
panel
regions &
views

13. Panels Feature Underneath...

14. Panel Feature Underneath
Using CCK, views, panel, strongarm

15. Adding a Panel to a Feature
under "Panels" or "Page Manager"

16. How to export non-exportables
Features doesn't export everything, but it's
still a module!
Next: simple example, creating a
vocabulary with a feature
If you don't trust features_extra this
could be helpful...

17. How to export non-exportables
Using hook_install() &
hook_uninstall()
(Remember features_extra can export taxonomy)
Could export nodes (node_export) & use node_save to
create on install
Anything you can do in a module you can do in a feature

18. Real World Examples!
Seeing is believing, some (more) real
world screenshots of feature lists

19. Real World List Screenshots

20. Real World List Screenshots

21. Real World List Screenshots

22. Real World Screenshots
The trend is I
always have at least
1 feature for each
content type

23. The End
Resources http://tiny.cc/9r0s3
DevSeed Blog
http://developmentseed.org/blog
Features Project Page
http://drupal.org/project/features
Strongarm Project Page
http://drupal.org/project/strongarm
Features Extra Project Page
http://drupal.org/project/features_extra
My DrupalDojo Presentation
http://drupaldojo.com/session/features-everywhere-
feature-driven-development
Hit me up on twitter: http://twitter.com/drupalninja/
Questions??