Drupal 8 Spinathon
Transcript of Drupal 8 Spinathon
Drupal 8 HelpShort List of Help
http://www.slideshare.net/littleMAS/go-daddy-drupal-8-notes
Drupal 8 Critical Issues
https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[0]=1&status[1]=13&status[2]=8&status[3]=14&status[4]=4&priorities[0]=400&categories[0]=1&categories[1]=2&categories[2]=5&version[0]=8.x
Requirements
• PHP 5.5.9 (w/JSON, XML, GD), curl 7.35, Twig (Symfony2)*
• MySQL 5.5.3 w/PDO
• Apache 2.x, Nginx 1.5.x
https://www.drupal.org/requirements/php#8
* http://twig.sensiolabs.org/documentation
Installation
• Drupal 8 includes Composer*
• Cheat Sheet at Nuvole — http://nuvole.org/blog/2014/oct/01/drupal-7-drupal-8-cheat-sheet
• TBD — https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install* http://crossfunctional.net/blog/2013/may/indefinitive-guide-composer-drupal-8
Installation Details• Apache GD & A2EMOD for image
resizing and clear URLs
• settings.php plus services.yml
• Verify the directory tree, which is different than D7, e.g., sudo mkdir /var/www/yourdir/public_html/drupal/sites/default/files and sudo chgrp www-data var/www/yourdir/public_html/drupal/default/files
Development
• Comprehensive Help — https://drupalize.me/drupal-8
• Configuration Management — http://drupal8cmi.org/
• Composer Dependency Manager Module* — https://www.drupal.org/node/2405811
* Greg Anderson on Composer — https://youtu.be/WNS3d_wzZ2Y
• Add Users and Assign Roles
• Add Icon and Logo Images
• Tweak Theme Look
• General Articles on Front Page with Comments from Logged on Users
• User Blog Page
• About Page with Map
Site Pages
–GoDaddy
“We are giving away the site.”