Drupal 7
What’s In It For You?

About Me
• Web Developer
• Vertex, Inc.
• 10 Years
• 7-8 years ASP,
MSSQL, .NET
• Drupal N00B

Agenda
• How did we get here?
• What’s in Drupal 7?
• How can you help?

How did we get here?
• Drupal 6 Release - 2/13/2008
• Dries selects Drupal 7 maintainer - Angie Byron
(webchick)
• Code thaw
• Code freeze - 9/1/2009
• Release (2010?)

What’s New
In Drupal 7?

Requirements
• PHP5
• MySQL 5 & PgSQL 8.3
• PDO

SimpleTest
• Automated code testing framework
• Test-driven development
• Testing bot (http://testing.drupal.org)
• Saves developers/reviewers/testers time

DBTNG
• PDO-based database abstraction layer
• Provides support for any DB PHP supports (mysql,
sqlite, pgsql, oracle?, mssql?)
• Master-slave support
• Transaction support
• “Extra” database support

DBTNG
e old way:
db_query(“INSERT INTO {node} VALUES title=’%s’, uid=%d”, “whatever”,
1);
e new way:
$nid = db_insert('node')
->fields(array(
'title' => 'Example',
'uid' => 1,
'created' => REQUEST_TIME,
))
->execute();

D7UX
• Drupal 7 User Experience
• U of Baltimore and U of Minnesota usability testing
• Mark Boulton Design
• Admin toolbar, shortcut toolbar, editing in place.
• Many other usability improvements
• DEMO!

RDFa
• What is RDFa?
• Robot food
• Google and Yahoo now indexing RDFa
• Semantic Web

eming
• Goodbye pushbutton, bluemarine. Hello Stark!
• Sensible CSS ids & classes
• More granular control over $content
• jQuery UI

Field API
• aka CCK in core
• but not CCK UI in core (yet!)
• $node->body is now a eld
• Taxonomy terms now a eld

Everything else
• File handling
• Stream wrappers (public:// private:// ickr:// s3://)
• Image handling/image styles
• D7CX
• Lots more...

How Can You Help?
• Documentation
• Patch testing & review
• Patch submission
• Spread the word

ank you
• steve@stevekarsch.com
• www.stevekarsch.com
• twitter.com/karschsp
• http://drupal.org/user/138216