An introduction to Drupal 8.

1. What? Drupal Is Evolving!
A brief introduction to the CMS Drupal, the
upcoming release of Drupal 8, and more.

2. Eric Scott Sembrat
Web Manager at College of Engineering
Georgia Tech Graduate (’09 CS)
~4 Years in USG Institutions
Graduate Student at Georgia State University

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to ask a question or provide feedback!
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4. drupal 101:building
websites

5. drupal
what is
anyway?

6. WordPress Core
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin Plugin
Plugin
Plugin

7. Drupal Core
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin Plugin
Plugin
Plugin

8. drupal 7
the current version
released January 2011

9. web
we’ve seen a lot
of changes in
since then

11. drupal
what do we use
for?

17. upgrade
it’s about time for an
for ole Drupal 7.

18. drupal 8:playing
catch up

19. drupal 8RC released
October 2015

20. different?
what’s
Mobile First
Administration
File-Based
Configuration Mgmt.
Accessibility Changes
(HTML5)
Bundled WYSIWYG
Editor (CKEditor)
Theming Engine
(Twig)
Views in Core!
External Library
Adoption(s)
More Field Types for
Content
Updated Module/
Plugin Structure

21. changes
let’s discuss the best

22. views:drupal’s
ace

23. what is
views?

24. query & display of
content (entities) in
Drupal.
Entity Fields
User Information Contributed Features
Custom Content
Display

25. Field: Year
Content Type: Book
Field: Author
Field: Title
Field: Cover
IS ‘Field: Year’ > 1980?
Table of Books where
‘Field: Year’ > 1980
Arguments/Criteria
Fields&
Content
toDisplay

30. for more info:
http://www.slideshare.net/adellefrank/viewswow-for-drupal
http://adellefrank.com/node/425

31. editor:wysiwyg
included

32. wysiwyg
before d8, drupal never had a
pre-configured by default

35. config woesexport
with ease

36. drupal 7
migrating configuration with
was a chore.

37. cmi:
drupal 8 introduces
configuration
management

38. easySaving Configuration
Porting Configuration
Moving Configuration

39. YAML
the secret sauce:
configuration standards,
management, and storage.

40. old way
Dev Server Live Site
Dump old DB
Dump old dir
Upload dirs
Upload DB
Login to Site
Bug Check

41. new way
Dev Server Live Site
Download
Export File
Upload Import
File
Confirm
Changes

42. frameworkshelping
you code

43. twigreplaces in-house
PHPtemplate

44. symfony2components run
parts of Drupal 8.

45. demodoing it
live