GETTING STARTED
WITH DRUPAL 8
CODE

Environment Setup

D8 Requirements
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● Web Server
o Apache 2.0 or Nginx 1.1 (or greater)
● PHP 5.4.2 (or greater)
● One of the following databases:
o MySQL 5.0.15 (or greater), MariaDB 5.1.44 (or
greater), Percona Server 5.1.70 (or greater),
PostgreSQL 8.3 (or greater), SQLite 3.4.2 (or greater)

Personal Webserver Tools
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● Acquia Dev Desktop
o http://www.acquia.com/downloads
● MAMP
o http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/ (PHP 5.4.4+)
● XAMPP
o https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

Drush 7 (D6, D7, D8)
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Drush 7.x (dev) Required
o https://github.com/drush-ops/drush
Install with Composer:
#Download composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
#Move it to a global location (sudo might be required)
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
#Make sure Composer’s global bin directory is on the system PATH (recommended)
Add “PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin” to ~/.bashrc
#Have Composer install drush
composer global require drush/drush:dev-master

Database Setup
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● Create your database
o phpMyAdmin, Sequel Pro or Other
● Make note of:
o Database name
o User Name
o User Password

Site Install

D8 Install
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● Clone in Drupal from Git
o https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/git-
instructions
o Use the 8.x branch
o git clone --branch 8.x
http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git cd drupal
● Typical install.php page
o ex: http://localhost:8888/install.php

Fix Some Issues

D8 Issues Queue
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● Issues Queue
o https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal
● Filters
o Filter Version by 8.x issues
o Issue can be any other status but “Closed” or
“Reviewed by the community”
o Priority is great to follow
o Novice tag for challenge level

D8 Issues Help
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● Re-rolling patches
o https://www.drupal.org/patch/reroll
● Creating an interdiff (patching a patch)
o https://www.drupal.org/documentation/git/interdiff
● Viewing Commit History
o http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-
Commit-History

Configuration

D8 Configuration
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● Core Configuration Manager
● Configuration Managed in Code
● Uses human-readable text files in the
YAML (.yml) format
● https://www.drupal.org/documentation
/administer/config

D8 Configuration
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● Supports Import/Export of
configuration
● Binary file imports or direct code
paste
● Only supports configuration import
from same site

D8 Module Configurations
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● Modules (core and contrib) have
configuration files (.yml)
● Most live in the module’s “config”
directory
● Install sub-directory configuration
imported on module install

Path: core/modules/language/config/install/tour.tour.language.yml
id: language
module: language
label: 'Content translation'
langcode: en
routes:
- route_name: system.modules_list
- route_name: language.content_settings_page
tips:
content-translation-settings-enable-module:
id: content-translation-settings-enable-module
plugin: text
label: 'Content Translation'
body: 'Specify the parts of the website that may be translated, and default
languages for them.<br>Now, click to the right on <em>Allows users to
translate content entities</em>, and then click the <em>Next</em> button
below.'
weight: 1
attributes:
data-id: module-content_translation

THANK YOU!
Keenan Holloway
Senior Web Developer
kholloway@forumone.com
www.forumone.com