What's up with Drupal 7?

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

2. WHEN IS IT RELEASED? We are here

3. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN

4. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN

5. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN YOU!

6. Huge over- arching changes

7. DEFAULT/MINIMAL PROFILE

8. DEFAULTS

9. “SEVEN” ADMIN THEME

10. ACTION LINKS

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

18. ADMIN TOOLBAR Top of the new IA User menu Customizable shortcuts

19. ADMIN SHORTCUTS

20. ADMIN SHORTCUTS

21. ADMIN DASHBOARD Not ready!

22. ADMIN DASHBOARD

23. NEW CONFIGURATION IA

24. NEW CONFIGURATION IA

25. ADMIN OVERLAY In the works!

26. CONTEXTUAL ADMINISTRATION Not ﬁnished!

27. End user oriented changes

28. PASSWORD CHECKER Drupal 6 Drupal 7

29. INPUT FORMATS Drupal 6 Drupal 7

30. VERTICAL TABS Drupal 6 Drupal 7

31. Site builder changes

32. NEW MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

33. IMPROVED PERMISSIONS

34. TIME ZONES & COUNTRIES

35. ACCOUNT CANCELLATION

36. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FILES

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

38. IMAGES!

39. IMAGES!

40. 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

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

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

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

44. UPDATE MANAGER

45. UPDATE MANAGER

46. UPDATE MANAGER

47. Themer changes

48. LESS THEMES?!?

49. MORE REGIONS

50. 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

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

52. 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)

53. 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

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

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

56. 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.

57. Gábor Hojtsy gabor@hojtsy.hu

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