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Drupal 8 Configuration Management


Год издания: 2015
Автор: Stefan Borchert, Anja Schirwinski

Издательство: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781783985203
Язык: Английский

Формат: PDF/ePub
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 148

Описание: With all the complex configuration options of Drupal, the Configuration Management system allows you to keep track of your configuration and move configuration changes between several development environments with ease.
Drupal 8 Configuration Management will teach you everything you need to know about the Configuration Management system and get you started with using its features quickly. For more advanced users, the book explains how to use the API to add custom configuration and how to upgrade custom modules to use the new Configuration Management system, covering some essential tools and best practices. It will teach you to write schema files for custom configuration and upgrade modules to the new Configuration Management system. Additionally, you will learn how to migrate configuration from Drupal 6 and 7 to Drupal 8 and how to manage configuration for multilingual websites.

1: Understanding Configuration Management
An introduction to Configuration Management
Why manage configuration?
Tracking configuration changes
A look back at Drupal 7
How Drupal 8 takes care of Configuration Management
Using version control to keep track of configuration changes
Summary

2: Configuration Management for Administrators
Why do we want to manage our configuration?
Summary

3: Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
The config directory
Config and schema files – what are they and what are they used for?
Learning the difference between active and staging directories
Simple configuration versus configuration entities
Summary

4: The Configuration Management API
A simple configuration API
Summary

5: The Anatomy of Schema Files
What are schema files in Drupal?
Properties
Data types
Dynamic type references
Coding standards
PHP API
Summary

6: Adding Configuration Management to Your Module
Default configuration
Defining and using your own configuration
Summary

7: Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration
Upgrading your variables
Providing an upgrade path for your variables
Summary

8: Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
Multilingual sites in Drupal 7
Translating in Drupal 8
Summary

9: Useful Tools and Getting Help
Community documentation
The administration guide documentation
Contributed modules
Configuration development
Drush
Forums
The issue queue
IRC chat
Summary