What's up with Drupal 7?
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- Drupal 7 is an upcoming release that focuses on improving the administrative interface, security, and internationalization. It includes changes like reorganizing administrative menus, improving image and file handling, adding new field types, and upgrading default modules. The release aims to provide a better out-of-box experience for both administrators and end users. Development is led by the Drupal community to ensure contributed modules are ready upon release.
What's up with Drupal 7?
- 1. What’s up with DRUPAL 7 Gábor Hojtsy DrupalCamp Prague - 2009. november 1. Based on Angela Byron’s slides
- 2. WHEN IS IT RELEASED? We are here
- 3. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN
- 4. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN
- 5. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN YOU!
- 8. DEFAULTS
- 10. ACTION LINKS
- 11. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 12. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 13. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 14. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 15. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 16. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 17. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Drupal 6 Drupal 7 ★ Content management ★ Content ★ User management ★ Structure ★ Reports ★ Appearance ★ Site building ★ People ★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules ★ Reports ★ Help
- 18. ADMIN TOOLBAR Top of the new IA User menu Customizable shortcuts
- 19. ADMIN SHORTCUTS
- 20. ADMIN SHORTCUTS
- 21. ADMIN DASHBOARD Not ready!
- 22. ADMIN DASHBOARD
- 25. ADMIN OVERLAY In the works!
- 26. CONTEXTUAL ADMINISTRATION Not finished!
- 28. PASSWORD CHECKER Drupal 6 Drupal 7
- 29. INPUT FORMATS Drupal 6 Drupal 7
- 30. VERTICAL TABS Drupal 6 Drupal 7
- 34. TIME ZONES & COUNTRIES
- 36. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FILES
- 37. L10N & I18N • Improved built-in localization UI • Search got language support • Translatable fields (see later) • Message context support (“view”, “May”, etc)
- 38. IMAGES!
- 39. IMAGES!
- 40. SECURITY • PHP filter module guards all PHP input • Cron.php only runs with a key (against DoS) • Permission to run Update.php • Limitable amount of login attempts • Stronger, swappable password encryption
- 41. #SMALLCORE • Default (CMS) and expert (developer) install profile • Modules removed: blogapi, ping, throttle, upload • Block module not mandatory anymore • Access rules removed • ...
- 42. #LARGECORE New modules/functionality in core: admin role, (some) feed api, filefield, image, image api, imagecache, imagefield, (some) install profile api, poormanscron, token
- 43. CCK • Fields can be added to: nodes, users, comments, taxonomy terms • Field types: boolean, numbers, files, lists, text, taxonomy term, node body
- 44. UPDATE MANAGER
- 45. UPDATE MANAGER
- 46. UPDATE MANAGER
- 47. Themer changes
- 48. LESS THEMES?!?
- 49. MORE REGIONS
- 50. BETTER *.TPL.PHP FILES • Rethought XHTML structure • Standardized classes and IDs (.section, #navigation) • More consistent variables ($classes) • render() - HTML rendering per element • Readable block identifiers
- 51. MORE AND BETTER JS • jQuery 1.3 • jQuery Forms 2.2 • jQuery UI 1.7 • drupal_add_library() - for CSS+JS packages
- 52. A LOT MORE • Testing is part of the DNA now (testing.drupal.org) • New database abstraction layer • Field API • New file/stream handling backend (eg. S3 support) • Better scalability (eg. CDN support) • Unified APIs (bye-bye most $op arguments)
- 53. A LOT MORE • RDFa support (eg. export of nodes, comments, etc.) • Way easier to build install profiles • Queue API for long running tasks • Improved node access system • Version based dependency support
- 54. #D7CX • Contributed modules should be ready as D7 is released • http://cyrve.com/d7cx
- 55. EVEN MORE INFORMATION • CHANGELOG.TXT • http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7 • http://drupal.org/update/theme/6/7 • http://drupal.org/project/coder
- 56. THANKS AGAIN These slides were based on Angela Byron’s Drupalcon Paris session slides. Thanks to her for the initial content and some of the screenshots.