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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

Drupal 8 Configuration Management

By : Borchert, Schirwinski
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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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By: Borchert, Schirwinski
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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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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So what is configuration in Drupal terms?
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How it works in Drupal 8
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Understanding Configuration Management
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1. Understanding Configuration Management
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An introduction to Configuration Management
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Why manage configuration?
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Tracking configuration changes
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A look back at Drupal 7
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How Drupal 8 takes care of Configuration Management
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Using version control to keep track of configuration changes
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Summary
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2. Configuration Management for Administrators
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2. Configuration Management for Administrators
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Why do we want to manage our configuration?
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3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
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3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
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The config directory
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Config and schema files – what are they and what are they used for?
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Learning the difference between active and staging directories
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Simple configuration versus configuration entities
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4. The Configuration Management API
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4. The Configuration Management API
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A simple configuration API
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5. The Anatomy of Schema Files
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5. The Anatomy of Schema Files
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What are schema files in Drupal?
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Properties
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Data types
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Dynamic type references
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Coding standards
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PHP API
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6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module
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6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module
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Default configuration
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Defining and using your own configuration
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7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration
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7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration
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Upgrading your variables
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Providing an upgrade path for your variables
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8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
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8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
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Multilingual sites in Drupal 7
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Translating in Drupal 8
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9. Useful Tools and Getting Help
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9. Useful Tools and Getting Help
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Community documentation
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The administration guide documentation
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Contributed modules
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Configuration development
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Drush
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Forums
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The issue queue
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IRC chat
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What are schema files in Drupal?

With schema files, you can describe the contents of a configuration file. You can determine which configuration keys are allowed in a specific configuration object and which data type configuration data needs to have. Drupal 8's schema files are inspired by Kwalify.

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Kwalify (http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/) is a parser and schema validator for YAML and JSON. It adds a schema to YAML and JSON as, for example DTD does for XML.

The format used by Kwalify was slightly modified to fit the needs of the structure needed in Drupal 8 but, generally, it is largely identical.

Schema files were not introduced for validation purposes only. The primary use case for schema files was to support multilingual configuration in Drupal 8. It was necessary to create a tool to identify all translatable strings within the configuration files, so the entire configuration, views, menu items, and user roles that you may define in a custom module or theme could be offered as translation...

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