1. BLOCKS & LAYOUTS
From Drupal 7 to 8

2. @DASJO
Josef Dabernig

3. http://dasjo.at/
blocks-layouts-szeged

6. THIS IS MY FAVORITE BLOCKS &
LAYOUTS RELATED MODULE

8. IT ALL BEGINS…

9. • Themes
• Regions
• Blocks
• Templates
BASICS

10. CORE BLOCKS

11. CHALLENGES
• Too much going on at admin/structure/block
• Can’t export block configuration
• Custom blocks depend on global “context” information
$node = node_load(arg(2));
• Content region vs. other regions

12. COMPOSITION PATTERNS

13. • Custom blocks
• Contextual views
• EVA
• and…
COMPOSITION PATTERNS

14. • Custom blocks
• Contextual views
• EVA
• and…
COMPOSITION PATTERNS
• Context
• Panels
• Display suite
• and…

15. BLOCKS & LAYOUTS

16. BLOCKS & LAYOUTS

18. CONTEXT,
DISPLAY SUITE &
PANELS

19. CONTEXT
• React & do something
• Conditionally place blocks

20. DISPLAY SUITE
• Extends “manage display”
• Use custom layouts
• Define view modes
• Code fields, dynamic fields, block fields,
preprocess fields

21. PANELS
• The most successful layout solution for Drupal 7
• Huge ecosystem, includes Page manager,“Panels
Context”, Panelizer, In-place editor, CTools
content plug-ins, …

22. PUSH ~ PULL

23. CONTEXT ~ PANELS, DS

24. PAGEVARIANTS

25. SELECTION RULES

26. LAYOUT SELECTION

27. CONTENT PLACEMENT

28. PAGE MANAGER

29. PANELIZER

30. IN-PLACE EDITOR

31. PANELS
• Panels everywhere (take over regions & page.tpl)
• Page manager existing pages
• Fieldable panels panes (embeddable entities)
• Field API Pane Editor (D8 in-place editing, Spark)

32. VIEWS CONTENT PANES

35. WSCCI + SCOTCH
≈
DRUPAL 8

36. • Blocks are Plugins
• Object-oriented
• Extensible
• Annotation config
DRUPAL 8

37. • Block library
• Custom block
types
• Fields, revisions
& view modes
DRUPAL 8

38. • Place block instances
DRUPAL 8

39. • Twig instead of .tpl.php
DRUPAL 8

40. THANKS
& HAPPY BUILDING

41. • Blocks
https://groups.drupal.org/node/160144
• Introduction to Panopoly by Adrian Webb
(Panels screenshots)
http://prezi.com/0l_derrjnmbx/introduction-to-
panopoly/
CREDITS