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- 1. Features, Exportables & You Jon Skulski Drupal Architect, ChapterThree LLC jon@chapterthree.com http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/jon_skulski
- 2. Features http://www.drupal.org/project/features • by Development Seed • organize Components into Features • export DB Site Configuration to Code
- 3. Features what makes a feature, mr. lebowski? • views • panels • content types • drupal variables (strongarm) • contexts • spaces • menu items • imagecache presets • your custom code (it is a module)
- 4. Blog a typical Drupal use case • a Content Type to save the data. blog_entry • a View to display the blog entries. blog • a Panel Variant to display the node. node_view
- 5. DEMO see it in action
- 6. State of the Union what works in features, what needs work
- 7. Works Wonderfully extensive use and little to no problems • Views • :-
- 8. Works OK known problems, known workarounds • CCK/Content Types • basic use case is solid. • #693944 - field weighting of non-CCK fields is suspect. use form_alter. • #649298 - field removal doesn’t work. use hook_update. • #480978 - fieldsets need manual feature revert. so do it.
- 9. Works OK known problems, known workarounds • Panels/Page Manager/CTools • basic use case is solid. • #740074 - multiple (i.e. node view) variants across separate features is broken. manually change the page manager handler name.
- 10. Works OK known problems, known workarounds • Variables / Strongarm • basic use case is solid. • nothing specific, just suspect. sometimes it seems like variables don’t get included. Be careful and check your work.
- 11. Works OK known problems, known workarounds • drush features-update • using drush has sometimes failed to include new files in the feature. use the download button in admin/build/features.
- 12. Broken :-( known problems, unknown workarounds • Dependencies • basic use case is solid. • #649604 adding new dependencies leads to a race condition. use hook_update & drupal_install_modules() to enforce a dependencies.
- 13. Broken :-( known problems, unknown workarounds • Taxonomy • no default hook
- 14. Broken :-( known problems, unknown workarounds • Anything without a Default Hook • A default hook is a pattern in drupal that allows code to add objects like views, content types, etc. • By design, features uses default hooks. So anything without one isn’t going to work. Use exportables...
- 15. Exportables http://www.drupal.org/project/exportables • by jazzslider & dmitrig01 • provides an API for adding Default Hook-ish Functionality • allows DB Site Configuration to be exported to Code
- 16. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job • allows an exportable to give a machine name to the nameless • maintains a link between the sequential ID and the declared machine name • pays attention to changes in the database versus our default code • pretty good at caching the right stuff
- 17. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job • hook_exportables allows us to define the default, load, save, delete functions our exportable will use • exportables_sync uses the default, load and save functions to add our exportable to the database • exportables_unsync uses the delete function to remove our exportable from the database • i’ll get to a real example in a minute...
- 18. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job So we can use this export taxonomies!
- 19. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job Well, no.
- 20. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job
- 21. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job Taxonomies use sequential IDs and exportables allow us to link that to a machine name. So what’s the problem?
- 22. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job Views filters in code look like:
- 23. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job Which translates into this:
- 24. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job So what happens when you push a new feature and it installs the vocabulary at VID = 18 because a client had created new vocabularies?
- 25. Exportables never send a human to do a machine’s job
- 26. Case Study: Reserved Taxonomy • Reserved Taxonomy solves this problem by giving developers an exportable with feature integration to install vocabularies and terms at specific vocabulary IDs and term IDs • The idea is that you set aside a block of IDs for your terms and vocabularies. More than you will ever need. Say, 1-100000. Then any terms that the clients or you add later will start at 1000001. • That way if you need to add more later, you can without conflicts.
- 27. CODE see it in motion
- 29. Thanks! Jon Skulski Drupal Architect, ChapterThree LLC jon@chapterthree.com / jonskulski