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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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Drupal 8 Configuration Management
Mar, 2015 | 148 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Drupal 8 Configuration Management
Drupal 8 Configuration Management
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Understanding Configuration Management
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
Configuration Management for Administrators
Why do we want to manage our configuration?
Summary
3
Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
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
The Configuration Management API
A simple configuration API
Summary
5
The Anatomy of Schema Files
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
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 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
Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
Multilingual sites in Drupal 7
Translating in Drupal 8
Summary
9
Useful Tools and Getting Help
Useful Tools and Getting Help
Community documentation
The administration guide documentation
Contributed modules
Configuration development
Drush
Forums
The issue queue
IRC chat
Summary
Index
Index

An introduction to Configuration Management

The general definition of the term "Configuration Management" is somewhat different from the definition of Configuration Management in Drupal 8. To make things easier, we will focus on explaining what Configuration Management is in Drupal terms.

Configuration Management in Drupal 8 aims at making configuration manageable across different environments by allowing us to store configuration in files instead of the database.

Let's start by defining what configuration is, and what other types of information exist in Drupal 8.

Configuration

Configuration is the information about your site that is not content and is meant to be more permanent, such as the name of your site, the content types, fields, and views you have defined.

Content

Content is the information meant to be displayed on your site, such as articles, basic pages, images, files, and so on.

Session

This is the information about an individual user's interactions with the site, such as whether they are logged in.

State

This is information of a temporary nature about the current state of your site. Examples include the time when Cron was last run, whether node access permissions need rebuilding, and so on.

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