Book description
Make the most of Drupal 8's coolest new feature - the Configuration Management system
In Detail
With all the complex configuration options of Drupal, the Configuration Management system allows you to keep track of your configuration and move configuration changes between several development environments with ease.
Drupal 8 Configuration Management will teach you everything you need to know about the Configuration Management system and get you started with using its features quickly. For more advanced users, the book explains how to use the API to add custom configuration and how to upgrade custom modules to use the new Configuration Management system, covering some essential tools and best practices. It will teach you to write schema files for custom configuration and upgrade modules to the new Configuration Management system. Additionally, you will learn how to migrate configuration from Drupal 6 and 7 to Drupal 8 and how to manage configuration for multilingual websites.
What You Will Learn
- Understand Configuration Management in Drupal
- Set up development environments with ease
- Manage and version control your configuration in code
- Use best practices in your development process
- Upgrade your modules' configuration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
- Use configuration in your own custom module
- Discover how the translation of configuration works
- Explore the structure and write your own schema files for configuration
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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Drupal 8 Configuration Management
- Table of Contents
- Drupal 8 Configuration Management
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. 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
- 3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
- 4. The Configuration Management API
- 5. The Anatomy of Schema Files
- 6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module
- 7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration
- 8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
- 9. Useful Tools and Getting Help
- Index
Product information
- Title: Drupal 8 Configuration Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781783985203
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