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October 25

9:00 AM–5:00 PM

Object Oriented PHP

Advanced
Stephens Lounge

With the move to Drupal 8 everyone who works in the PHP layer will be exposed to more and more to object­ oriented code.

Come learn the basics of working with objects in PHP and how OOP can help you to write well­ structured code.

October 26

3:45 PM-4:30 PM

Module & Architecture Development + Drupal Composer, Custom Entities, and Plugins

architecture / backend development
Intermediate

Watch the session video here.

We'll review some of my findings while learning and building web applications in Drupal 8.

We'll go over architecture options for web applications built in Drupal 8. Modern PHP dependency management with Composer, Content Entities vs Nodes and when each is appropriate. We'll look at some excellent combinations of contrib modules and glue code to create flexible architectures.

Who is this for?

4:45 PM-5:30 PM

Configuration Workflow Automation

site building / process / devops
Intermediate

Watch the session video here.

Configuration management has only gotten more complex as Drupal 8 has matured. With Config 2.0 going full speed ahead, some improvements are coming. Unfortunately, our dream of being able to save configuration directly to files won't happen, and the community has created complex workflows to work around the problem of storing configuration in the database.

But, the workflow has been automated for you in Contrib.