Drupal for programmers

What’s in it for me?by Mihail Shahov

About me• Mihail Shahov ( ShaxA )

• PHP Developer since 2009

• Senior Drupal Developer at ProPeople

• Soon Acquia certificated Drupal developer

We will seek answers for …

• What is Drupal?• What is Drupal for a programmer?• How does Drupal information flows?• What makes Drupal so powerful?• Which modules to use on regular basics?• What will help us as developers?• What to expect in Drupal 8?• Where should we seek useful information?

What is Drupal?

• Content Management System• Content Management Framework• Web application framework• PHP extendable

What else is Drupal?• Drupal is open• Drupal is web development• Drupal is social• Drupal is content• Drupal is scalable• Drupal is design• Drupal is secure ( OWASP secured )• Drupal is everywhere

What is Drupal for a programmer?

• Open source Content Management System• Large amount of

contributed modules• Coding standards • Community and Support• Ease of use by customers

How does Drupal information flows?

• The data pool• Modules come alive• Output of modules and

navigation• Are we allowed to do and

see?• The skin

What makes Drupal so powerful?

• Modular and extensible• Standards Compliant• Quality coding• Stable and Supported• High performance• Open Source• Easy to use by website

owners• High level of security

Which are the key modules?

• Node• Taxonomy• Menu• Block• Path• Blog• Color• Comment• Contact• Poll

• Views• Panels• Libraries API• Entity API• Seach API• Features• Rules• Organic groups• Webform• Pathauto• Metatag

What will help us as developers?

• Devel module• Coder module• Backup and migrate

Drush

Drupal 8?!Drupal 8 is so different,how will I ever learn it?—Drupal developers I hear Drupal 8 is

finally not weird,does that mean I can learn it?—Everyone else

What to expect in Drupal 8?

For FE:• Responsive design in

core also for admins• Modernizer• Backbone• Native Schema.org

output• Twig templating

For BE:• Configuration

Management• Views, WYSIWYG and

new field types in core• REST and Guzzle• Inline editing• Multilingual• Symfony components

Useful links. Where?https://www.drupal.org/documentation

Blogs:http://wearepropeople.com/bloghttps://www.drupal.org/planethttp://www.acquia.com/bloghttps://www.lullabot.com/bloghttp://www.bluecoda.com/blog

Come and join us!

Thank you all for the attention!