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FEATURES MODULE Drupal 7 Webinar
Presented By
Prasad ShirgaonkarCurriculum Developer, Acquia Learning Services"
• Designs and conducts Training programs on Drupal and Acquia Products!
• Over 20 years of Industry experience, 7 years on Drupal!
• In past, worked on 200+ Drupal projects @prasadshir
The Config Management Challenge
How to copy or move site configurations between environments?
Drupal Development Workflow
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• Modules%• Themes%
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• Content%Types%• Views%
Content%• Nodes%• Terms%
Drupal Site Components
Code Files
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• Modules%• Themes%
Config%ura3ons%
• Content%Types%• Views%
Content%• Nodes%• Terms%
Initial Development
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Continuous Workflow
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How do we manage site configurations?
FeaturesThere’s a module for that!
Features Module• Enables the capture
and management of features in Drupal. !
• A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case.!
• Converts and stores site configurations in code rather than in DB!
Features Applications• Move your site configurations from database
to code making them easier to • Move between environments• Check-in in a version control system• Distribute independently as ‘features’ and
re-use across different sites
Demo
More Discussion
Understanding intricacies and extending Features
Features Terminology• Revert • Changes your site
configuration in DB to match up with the definitions in the feature module code.
• Code —> DB
!
• Update • Produces a
modified version of your feature module code, which matches up with the configuration found in the DB.
• DB —> Code
What can be ‘feature’ized• Core
• Content Types
• Vocabularies
• User Roles
• Permissions
• Fields
• Text Formats
• Menus
• Image Styles
• Contrib
• Views
• Panels
• Rules
• Contexts
• Display Suite
What cannot be ‘feature’ized• Content • Nodes• Terms• Users• Custom Blocks
Advanced Usage• Strongarm Module • Use for exporting Variables like site name,
slogan etc
• Diff Module • For comparing difference between code and DB
• Drush Integration • features-list (fl), features-components (fc),
features-diff (fd) • features-export (fe), features-revert (fr), features-
update (fu)
Resources• Features Module on D.O.
https://drupal.org/project/features• Features Module Documentation
https://drupal.org/documentation/modules/features
• Strongarm Module https://drupal.org/project/strongarm
• Diff Modulehttps://drupal.org/project/diff
Q + AYour questions please!