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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

IRC chat

The Drupal community uses IRC to chat about different topics. To find out more about IRC, visit https://drupal.org/irc. The IRC channel for Configuration Management is #drupal-cmi.

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