This document discusses the key features and improvements in Drupal 8. It covers improvements for end-users like better authoring tools, improvements for site builders like new field types and form customization, improvements for designers like Twig and new front-end libraries, and improvements for developers like Symfony integration and RESTful web services. It encourages contributing to Drupal 8 through bug fixing, documentation, examples and testing.

1. Ivan Tibezh at InternetDevels

2. План
● What is Drupal?
● Who uses Drupal?
● For end-users & clients
● For site builders
● Multilang
● For designers and themers
● For developers
● Summary

3. What is Drupal?
ЦМС з відкритим кодом.

4. Who uses Drupal?
...and more than a million other
organizations

5. Drupal 8
improvements for end-users & clients

6. Authoring improvement:
WYSIWYG in Core

7. Authoring improvement:
In-place editing

8. Authoring improvement:
In-place editing

9. Authoring improvement:
New content creation page

10. Authoring improvement:
Preview on the frontend

11. It’s mobile-first

12. Responsive themes, images,
breakpoints

13. Mobile-friendly administration

14. Drupal 8 improvements for site builders

15. Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New field types like Entity Reference

16. …plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!
Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New field types
Date/Datetime

17. Form displays: customize the look
and feel of data entry forms

18. Views in Core

19. Views = fully customizable...
With the Drupal 8 views, you can customize:
● Admin listings
● Sidebar content
● Image galleries
● Slideshows
● REST output
...with 0 lines of code!

20. Restyled administration interface

21. Multilingual improvements in Drupal 8

22. Community translation downloads

23. Language data tracking expanded

24. Translation on (almost) everything

25. Drupal 8 improvements for designers and themers

27. HTML5 Form Elements

28. New front-end libraries

29. Twig Example: node.html.twig
<article{{ attributes }}>
{{ title_prefix }}
{% if not page %}
<h2{{ title_attributes }}>
<a href="{{ url }}" rel="bookmark">{{ label }}</a>
</h2>
{% endif %}
{{ title_suffix }}
{% if display_submitted %}
<footer class="node__meta">
{{ author_picture }}
<div class="node__submitted {{ author_attributes.class }}"{{
author_attributes|without('class') }}>
{% trans %}Submitted by {{ author_name|passthrough }} on {{ date }}{%
endtrans %}
{{ metadata }}
</div>
</footer>
{% endif %}
<div class="node__content {{ content_attributes.class }}"{{
content_attributes|without('class') }}>
{{ content|without('links') }}
</div>
{% if content.links %}
<div class="node__links">
{{ content.links }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</article>

30. node.tpl.php
<div id="node-<?php print $node->nid; ?>" class="<?php print $classes; ?>
clearfix"<?php print $attributes; ?>>
<?php print $user_picture; ?>
<?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
<?php if (!$page): ?>
<h2<?php print $title_attributes; ?>><a href="<?php print $node_url; ?>"><?php
print $title; ?></a></h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php print render($title_suffix); ?>
<?php if ($display_submitted): ?>
<div class="submitted">
<?php print $submitted; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="content"<?php print $content_attributes; ?>>
<?php
hide($content['comments']); hide($content['links']);
print render($content);
?>
</div>
<?php print render($content['links']); ?>
<?php print render($content['comments']); ?>
</div>

31. Native Schema.org Output

32. Killed support for IE 6 & 7
(and most of 8)

33. Drupal 8 improvements for developers

34. Configuration management
dev stage production

37. Drush integration for automation

38. Web services
other systems or frameworks
desktop
Android applications
other Drupal sites
Flash components
iPhone applications
kiosk applications

39. ● HttpFoundation
● HttpKernel
● Dependency
● Injection
● EventDispatcher
● Routing
● Yaml
Symfony framework

40. GETting data out of Drupal:
RESTful Web Services module

41. GETting data into Drupal: Guzzle
$client = Drupal::httpClient();
$config = Drupal::config('3rdparty.settings');
// Format arguments for passing in URL.
$arg = urlencode($argument);
// Pull data from 3rd party's REST API.
$api_key = $config->get('api_key');
$request =
$client-
>get("http://3rdparty.com/$arg/?key=$api_key");
// Get the response and do something with it.
$response = $request->send();
$json = $response->json();
...

42. Catch all of the improvements!
https://drupal.org/list-changes

44. https://drupal.org/contribute
Where do we need help?
● Finding and fixing bugs
● Performance
● Migration path
● Port contributed projects
● DOCUMENTATION!
● EXAMPLES!
● TOOLS!
● TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!

45. When should I use Drupal 8?
Keep your eye on https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

46. My own modules?
● Use
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalmoduleupg
rader to start the upgrade of your code.
● If you need to / want to start your module fresh,
see https://www.drupal.org/project/console