PHP

Entities explained

Berdir — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:22:37 +0000

Entities explained

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

Berdir Mon, 05/15/2023 - 08:22

Time Slot

Wed 5:10pm to 5:40pm (7/19/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

Covering most important aspects of working with entities. From basic CRUD, working with entity fields, revisions, translations, entity templates in PHP and twig as well as some deep dives into inner workings of Content Entities. And finally, room for the questions you always wanted to ask an entity system maintainer.

The session will focus on content entities and working with existing entity types, defining a new entity type from scratch will not be covered.

Topics (Non-final):

What is an entity
Basic concepts: entity types, config vs content entities, bundles, fields, ...
Create/Read/Update/Delete
Fields: Field types, formatters, widgets, Typed data
Rendering entities: View displays, entity render arrays and templates
Revisions, Content moderation
Translations
Storage
Bundle classes

Level of expertise: The goal is that everyone will have a better understanding than before and learn some new bits, if you're new to Drupal you might not immediately follow everything but the presentation will also work as a reference to come back to later.

I've given the same presentation before at Drupal MountainCamp 2022: https://drupalmountaincamp.ch/sessions/entities-explained.

Speaker(s)

Sascha Grossenbacher

MD Systems

Speaker biography

Sascha Grossenbacher

Entity system maintainer, 15 years of Drupal contribution experience.

Session Keywords

Back End Development

PHP

The Depths of Paragraphs

pivica — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:08:22 +0000

The Depths of Paragraphs

Room

HS4 (Ground level)

pivica Sun, 05/14/2023 - 16:08

Time Slot

Fri 3:00pm to 3:45pm (7/21/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

Most people see Paragraphs as a very popular module for powerful content creation. Usually site admins will use paragraphs to create complex content units for building complex pages (by composing various Drupal fields in independent content units). However, from Drupal 8 release paragraphs are much more than that. New version of paragraphs brings some awesome new features like new form widget and library support. Additionally companion paragraphs_collection contrib module adds features like:

Style plugin system for paragraphs
Layout plugin system for paragraphs
Lockable plugin for paragraphs
Language visibility plugin for paragraphs

All this makes paragraphs a complete system for not only creating content but also managing its look (style), layout (grid, etc) and other content behaviour.

In this session we will show you how to set up your paragraphs with styles and layouts and also show you how easy it is to develop your own custom paragraph styles and layouts.
Furthermore we will show you the latest work that went into making Paragraphs compatible with Drupal 10 and the new Claro admin theme.

All this should allow you to develop internal styles and layouts that you can reuse across your projects. Hopefully we will bring you closer to all advanced paragraph options with this session so you can start using it in your next project.

Speaker(s)

Ivica Puljic

Senior frontend developer at MD Systems

Speaker biography

As a seasoned Drupal developer with expertise in both frontend and backend development, I am contributing to and maintaining a number of Drupal contrib modules. My interests extend beyond Drupal to encompass all aspects of web development, particularly in the areas of component-oriented design, website development, UI/UX, and applied machine learning. Alongside my technical skills, I also possess a strong foundation in project and team management, as well as product and business development.

Session Keywords

Back End Development

PHP

Drupal Site-Building

Should migrate be our goto for migrations?

Curried — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:11:46 +0000

Should migrate be our goto for migrations?

Room

HS4 (Ground level)

Curried Mon, 04/03/2023 - 11:11

Time Slot

Thu 2:00pm to 2:45pm (7/20/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

It seems to be considered a worthwhile APP redesign, it must recover data from the old platform. Sometimes it is as simple as saying "A goes into A, B goes into B". Other times it is "A goes into A if X happens, but if Y happens it goes into B. B goes into C but only if Z happens".

On a daily basis, I have not migrated much data, but projects in which those processes took place were not the easiest ones. In order to further develop, I will provide you with two experiences.

For my first experience, we had almost 150 domains to migrate from a Drupal 7 to a Drupal 8 and around 20000 nodes and 3000 blocks. Following the feature’s needs and the time given, we chose Micro Site to replace Domains and all the blocks were transformed into paragraphs. What this means is that we were in a big case of “A goes into A if X happens, but if Y happens it goes into B. B goes into C but only if Z happens”. Almost every content had a condition for it to be migrated in one way or another.

As for my second experience, we migrated a Spring application to Drupal. It is of the utmost importance to know that Spring uses Neo4J, a graph type database, and our Drupal was using PostgreSQL. For this second use case, we chose to use Open Social and Groups. This time, I knew what we should do and what we should not do. But no one really knew neither what had already been implemented nor how it worked.

In the end and in both cases, I discovered that usually the problems that occur during the process are the same. For that, the following questions come to my mind:

When must we be concerned about migration mapping? In what stage of the project? Do we know the old platform? Do we have access to it? Can we and should we use Migrate?

I encountered projects in which those questions or their possible answers came too late several times.

I would like to end this talk by exposing the conclusions that I have recollected not only from my work experience, but also from my field colleagues. For example: how to try to integrate the migration as soon as possible or how to try to simplify your life with Migrate if the data is too complex.

I hope my experience will bring a new point of view to what you already know and that it can be a moment of sharing!

Speaker(s)

Nerea Enrique

ekino

Speaker biography

PHP engineer since 2018. Loves PHP, PHP events, hiking and especially art..

Session Keywords

App-Development

Back End Development

PHP