A little about us.

Hi! I'm Nick.
I'm a Managing Partner @

Hi! I'm Rich.
I'm a Web Platform Strategist & Architect @

Hi! I'm Mai. I'm a senior developer @

Let's talk Drupal...

What is Drupal?

Where have we come from?

Our many stages of evolution

Where are we going?

A revolution is happening!

Who uses Drupal?

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

One of the largest cancer centers in the United States, launched the new mskcc.org in May. It chose Drupal 8, even when the software was still in its beta phase, to help extend the reach of its "More Science. Less Fear" campaign.

CH2M

CH2M is a global corporation that works to keep governments, infrastructure, and environments sustainable. It uses Drupal 8 to present and prove its capabilities.

Many, Many, Many More

drupal.org/case-studies/featured/all/drupal-8.x

Lets step back...

Lets talk about the C in CMS

Content First

Structuring our content

What makes Drupal unique?

Some terminology

Entities

Fields

Fields can be "bundled" with Entities

Views

Modules

Themes

Regions

Blocks

Lets dive in!

Under the hood

We can do alot with just core. Let's see how we can extend.

File Structure

Settings.php and friends

Make our lives easier with Drush

What about Drupal Console?

Ok are you ready to go deeper?

Lets make a Page...

/**
 * Our first Drupal 8 controller.
 */
namespace Drupal\hello\Controller;

use Drupal\Core\Controller\ControllerBase;

class HelloController extends ControllerBase {
  public function sayHi() {

    return array(
        '#markup'=>"Why hello Drupal 8",
      );
  }
}
            

/modules/custom/hello/hello.routing.yml

              
              hello.sayHi:
  path: '/hello'
  defaults:
    _controller: '\Drupal\hello\Controller\HelloController::sayHi'
  requirements:
    _permission: 'access content'

              
            

What about Forms?

/modules/custom/hello/src/Form/HelloRequestForm.php

              
/**
 * @file
 * Contains \Drupal\hello\Form\HelloRequestForm.
 */

namespace Drupal\hello\Form;

use Drupal\Core\Form\FormBase;
use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;

class HelloRequestForm extends FormBase {
  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}.
   */
  public function getFormId() {
    return 'hello_request';
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}.
   */
  public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    $form['phone_number'] = array(
      '#type' => 'tel',
      '#title' => $this->t('Your phone number')
    );
    $form['actions']['#type'] = 'actions';
    $form['actions']['submit'] = array(
      '#type' => 'submit',
      '#value' => $this->t('Give me a call'),
      '#button_type' => 'primary',
    );
    return $form;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function validateForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    if (strlen($form_state->getValue('phone_number')) < 3) {
      $form_state->setErrorByName('phone_number', $this->t('The phone number is too short. Please enter a full phone number.'));
    }
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function submitForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    drupal_set_message($this->t('Your phone number is @number', array('@number' => $form_state->getValue('phone_number'))));
  }
}

              
            

/modules/custom/hello/hello.routing.yml

              
              hello.requestHi:
  path: '/hello/request'
  defaults:
    _form: '\Drupal\hello\Form\HelloRequestForm'
  requirements:
    _permission: 'access content'
              
            

Lets make a Block!

/modules/custom/hello/src/Plugin/Block/HelloBlock.php

              
namespace Drupal\hello\Plugin\Block;

use Drupal\Core\Block\BlockBase;

/**
 * Provides a 'Hello' block.
 *
 * @Block(
 *   id = "hello_block",
 *   admin_label = @Translation("Hello block"),
 * )
 */
class HelloBlock extends BlockBase {
  public function build() {
    return array(
      '#markup' => $this->t("This is a an awesome block!"),
    );
  }
}

              
            

How about themes?

Let's download some, and explore