Drupal 7: What's In It For You?

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

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Drupal 7: What's In It For You?

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