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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

By : Borchert, Schirwinski

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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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By: Borchert, Schirwinski

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 Configuration Management is intended for people who use Drupal 8 to build websites, whether you are a hobbyist using Drupal for the first time, a long-time Drupal site builder, or a professional web developer.

Preface

Preface

So what is configuration in Drupal terms?

How it works in Drupal 8

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Understanding Configuration Management

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

2. Configuration Management for Administrators

Why do we want to manage our configuration?

Summary

3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management

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

4. The Configuration Management API

A simple configuration API

Summary

5. The Anatomy of Schema Files

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

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

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

8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites

Multilingual sites in Drupal 7

Translating in Drupal 8

Summary

9. Useful Tools and Getting Help

9. 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

Chapter 2. Configuration Management for Administrators

In the previous chapter, we learned about the general concept of Configuration Management and how we used Configuration Management in Drupal 7, or at least how we tried to do it.

This chapter will provide an introduction on how to use Configuration Management, for administrators (rather than developers) of a Drupal website who want to make use of the advantages of this new feature. We will show you how to use the Configuration Management interface, how to create a copy of your website, and how to move configuration made on one site to another site.

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