1. Using Features module
The facilities of Features Drupal module
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2. About us
Kálmán Hosszu
Factory Creative Studio
Head of Drupal Group
• @kalmanhosszu
• kalman-hosszu.com
Attila Cs. Nagy
Factory Creative Studio
Junior Drupal Developer
• @hairqles
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3. Numbers
New commits every two weeks
Latest stable version is not older than 1
month
46 000 site using
In top 50 modules
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4. Usage statistics
from drupal.org
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5. Cool but why?
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6. Before
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7. After
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8. Exportable settings
Content types
Permissions
Views
Panels
Image styles/presets
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9. Felxibility
Features module hooks
API functions
Implementing own (custom) modules
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10. Interface
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11. Creating page
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12. Creating page
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13. Listing page
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14. Status page
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15. Problems? Solutions!
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16. Things that we create
over and over again...
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17. My news system:
News content type with fields
Listing page with views
Image styles
Content view
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18. Again and again...
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19. Use Features!
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20. Deployment workflow
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21. Problems
Creating content types...
Setting up views...
Adding new image style...
On live site?!
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22. No way!
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23. dev > staging > production
Code Driven Development
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24. Version control
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25. Problems
I have to use another
computer
I haven’t got backup of my
work
Workgroup, we can’t
synchronize databases
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26. Versioning the code
You’ve got backup
The team can work together
You can use other computers
You can use branches
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27. Now you are using Features
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28. Best practises
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29. Don’t be lazy!
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30. Thinking in features
Encapsulation
Permission features
Variables into a separate feature
Content types and their views for
separate features
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31. Drush
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32. Cool modules
Diff (http://drupal.org/project/diff)
Strongarm (http://drupal.org/project/strongarm)
Node export (http://drupal.org/project/node_export)
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33. Experimental possibilities
Using install profiles
Managing installs with Aegir
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34. Questions?
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