Drupal intro for Symfony developers

Drupal for Symfony Developers Samuel Solís - @estoyausenteSamuel Solís - @estoyausente
Drupal for Symfony
Developers
By Samuel Solís

Drupal for Symfony Developers Samuel Solís - @estoyausente
A PHP CMS
Samuel Solís - @estoyausente
¿What is Drupal?
Open
Source
Highly
customizable
Usually called
as CMF

Main features
Security Performance
& Scaling
Multilingual Marketing
automation
Content
management Personalization
Content as a
Service

A lot of contrib modules

Note about Drupal versions
<D7 D7 D8
Old like a
mountain, now
unpredictable
Mature, important in
the Drupal story
Young, diﬀerent, the
real hero

Drupal install
Usually LAMP environment but many variations possible.
1. Download the project https://github.com/drupal/recommended-project
2. Composer install
3. Install the database and conﬁguration
a. Go to the site and follow the install wizard
b. Using drush with the command drush site-install

Drupal content structure

Entity
Conﬁg
Entity
Content
Entity
Views
Languages
...
Node
Comment
...
Article
Basic Page
...
*.yml

A conﬁg entity example: Views

A content entity example: Nodes

Drupal UI tour

Entity Types
Bulk operations
Entity base
ﬁelds
Bundle

Regions
Blocks
Click!

Block conﬁguration
Block visibility

Module types

Module conﬁgurations

User Roles
Module
permissions

Some awesome
module suites

Media

Workﬂow

REST & JSON API

Migrate

Drush

Drupal structure
composer.json
composer.lock
config/
.git
LICENSE
README.md
scripts/
.travis.yml
vendor/
web/
autoload.php
core/
error.html
error.php
favicon.ico
index.php
libraries/
modules/
profiles/
robots.txt
sites/
themes/
update.php
web.config
contrib/
custom/
[shared/]

Drupal module structure
config/
src/
templates/
tests/
migrations/
modules/
module_name.module
module_name.info.yml
module_name.*.yml
README.md

Drupal theme structure
config/
templates/
images/
css/
js/
images/
theme_name.info.yml
theme_name.libraries.yml
theme_name.theme
A theme is an special module,
but a module. The structure is
the same.

Some random code snippets

bb_data_layer.routing.yml
bb_data_layer.provider.autocomplete:
path: '/provider-autocomplete/{search_field_name}/{return_field_name}'
defaults:
_controller:
'Drupalbb_data_layerControllerAutocompleteController::providerAutocomp
lete'
_format: json
requirements:
_access: 'TRUE'
...

bb_data_layer.services.yml
services:
bb_data_layer.marketplace_wines:
class: Drupalbb_data_layerMarketplaceWines
bb_data_layer.product_sales:
class: Drupalbb_data_layerProductSales
...

AutocompleteController.php
<?php
namespace Drupalbb_data_layerController;
use DrupalCoreControllerControllerBase;
...
class AutocompleteController extends ControllerBase {
public function providerAutocomplete(Request $request, $search_field_name,
$return_field_name) {
$return = []; // some stuff
return new JsonResponse($return);
}
}

HazteSocio.php
/**
* Provides an example block.
* @Block(
* id = "bb_blocks_haztesocio",
* admin_label = @Translation("Register now"),
* )
*/
class HazteSocio extends BlockBase {
public function build() {
return [
'forms' => [
'facebook' => $this->facebook,
'#type' => 'container',
'#attributes' => [
'class' => ['user-register-input-wrapper'],
],
]
}
}
}

Symfony Components in D8
● ClassLoader
● CssSelector
● DependencyInjection
● EventDispatcher
● HttpFoundation
● HttpKernel
● Process
● Routing
● Serializer
● Translation
● Validator
● Yaml

DependencyInjection & Services
$logger = $container->get('logger');
$entityManager = $container->get(entity.orm.entity_manager');

Event & Event dispatcher
class UserLoginEvent extends Event {
const EVENT_NAME = 'bb_auth_user_login';
public $account;
public function __construct(UserInterface $account) {
$this->account = $account;
}
}

$event = new UserLoginEvent($account);
// Get the event_dispatcher service and dispatch the event.
$event_dispatcher = Drupal::service('event_dispatcher');
$event_dispatcher->dispatch(UserLoginEvent::EVENT_NAME, $event);

class BbAuthApiRequest implements EventSubscriberInterface {
public function onAPIRequest(BbRestRequest $event) {}
public static function getSubscribedEvents() {
$events[BbRestRequest::BB_REST_REQUEST][] = ['onAPIRequest'];
return $events;
}
}

Ya casi acabamos

Drupal community & support
● Drupalchat.eu (Rocket chat) -
Spanish channel #drupal-es
● Groups.drupal.org
● Drupal.slack.com
● drupal.stackexchange.com
Day to day Events

Thank for coming!

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