What's up with Drupal 7?

What’s up with DRUPAL 7 Gábor Hojtsy DrupalCamp Prague - 2009. november 1. Based on Angela Byron’s slides

WHEN IS IT RELEASED? We are here

WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN

WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN YOU!

Huge over- arching changes

DEFAULT/MINIMAL PROFILE

DEFAULTS

“SEVEN” ADMIN THEME

ACTION LINKS

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site conﬁguration ★ Conﬁg & modules ★ Reports ★ Help

ADMIN TOOLBAR Top of the new IA User menu Customizable shortcuts

ADMIN SHORTCUTS

ADMIN DASHBOARD Not ready!

ADMIN DASHBOARD

NEW CONFIGURATION IA

ADMIN OVERLAY In the works!

CONTEXTUAL ADMINISTRATION Not ﬁnished!

End user oriented changes

PASSWORD CHECKER Drupal 6 Drupal 7

INPUT FORMATS Drupal 6 Drupal 7

VERTICAL TABS Drupal 6 Drupal 7

Site builder changes

NEW MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

IMPROVED PERMISSIONS

TIME ZONES & COUNTRIES

ACCOUNT CANCELLATION

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FILES

L10N & I18N • Improved built-in localization UI • Search got language support • Translatable ﬁelds (see later) • Message context support (“view”, “May”, etc)

IMAGES!

SECURITY • PHP ﬁlter module guards all PHP input • Cron.php only runs with a key (against DoS) • Permission to run Update.php • Limitable amount of login attempts • Stronger, swappable password encryption

#SMALLCORE • Default (CMS) and expert (developer) install proﬁle • Modules removed: blogapi, ping, throttle, upload • Block module not mandatory anymore • Access rules removed • ...

#LARGECORE New modules/functionality in core: admin role, (some) feed api, filefield, image, image api, imagecache, imagefield, (some) install profile api, poormanscron, token

CCK • Fields can be added to: nodes, users, comments, taxonomy terms • Field types: boolean, numbers, ﬁles, lists, text, taxonomy term, node body

UPDATE MANAGER

Themer changes

LESS THEMES?!?

MORE REGIONS

BETTER *.TPL.PHP FILES • Rethought XHTML structure • Standardized classes and IDs (.section, #navigation) • More consistent variables ($classes) • render() - HTML rendering per element • Readable block identiﬁers

MORE AND BETTER JS • jQuery 1.3 • jQuery Forms 2.2 • jQuery UI 1.7 • drupal_add_library() - for CSS+JS packages

A LOT MORE • Testing is part of the DNA now (testing.drupal.org) • New database abstraction layer • Field API • New ﬁle/stream handling backend (eg. S3 support) • Better scalability (eg. CDN support) • Uniﬁed APIs (bye-bye most $op arguments)

A LOT MORE • RDFa support (eg. export of nodes, comments, etc.) • Way easier to build install proﬁles • Queue API for long running tasks • Improved node access system • Version based dependency support

#D7CX • Contributed modules should be ready as D7 is released • http://cyrve.com/d7cx

EVEN MORE INFORMATION • CHANGELOG.TXT • http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7 • http://drupal.org/update/theme/6/7 • http://drupal.org/project/coder

THANKS AGAIN These slides were based on Angela Byron’s Drupalcon Paris session slides. Thanks to her for the initial content and some of the screenshots.

Gábor Hojtsy gabor@hojtsy.hu

What's up with Drupal 7?

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