Slides on Drupal 7 from Drupalcamp Prague, November 1st, 2009.

1. What’s up with
DRUPAL 7
Gábor Hojtsy
DrupalCamp Prague - 2009. november 1.
Based on Angela Byron’s slides

2. WHEN IS IT RELEASED?
We are here

3. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN

4. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN

5. WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN
YOU!

6. Huge over-
arching changes

7. DEFAULT/MINIMAL PROFILE

8. DEFAULTS

9. “SEVEN” ADMIN THEME

10. ACTION LINKS

11. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

12. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

13. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

14. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

15. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

16. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

17. INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE
Drupal 6 Drupal 7
★ Content management ★ Content
★ User management ★ Structure
★ Reports ★ Appearance
★ Site building ★ People
★ Site configuration ★ Config & modules
★ Reports
★ Help

18. ADMIN TOOLBAR
Top of the new IA User menu
Customizable shortcuts

19. ADMIN SHORTCUTS

20. ADMIN SHORTCUTS

21. ADMIN DASHBOARD
Not ready!

22. ADMIN DASHBOARD

23. NEW CONFIGURATION IA

24. NEW CONFIGURATION IA

25. ADMIN OVERLAY
In the works!

26. CONTEXTUAL
ADMINISTRATION
Not finished!

27. End user
oriented changes

28. PASSWORD CHECKER
Drupal 6
Drupal 7

29. INPUT FORMATS
Drupal 6
Drupal 7

30. VERTICAL TABS
Drupal 6
Drupal 7

31. Site builder
changes

32. NEW MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS

33. IMPROVED PERMISSIONS

34. TIME ZONES & COUNTRIES

35. ACCOUNT CANCELLATION

36. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FILES

37. L10N & I18N
• Improved built-in localization UI
• Search got language support
• Translatable fields (see later)
• Message context support
(“view”, “May”, etc)

38. IMAGES!

39. IMAGES!

40. SECURITY
• PHP filter module guards all PHP input
• Cron.php only runs with a key (against DoS)
• Permission to run Update.php
• Limitable amount of login attempts
• Stronger, swappable password encryption

41. #SMALLCORE
• Default (CMS) and expert (developer) install profile
• Modules removed: blogapi, ping, throttle, upload
• Block module not mandatory anymore
• Access rules removed
• ...

42. #LARGECORE
New modules/functionality in core:
admin role, (some) feed api,
filefield, image, image api,
imagecache, imagefield, (some)
install profile api, poormanscron,
token

43. CCK
• Fields
can be added to: nodes, users,
comments, taxonomy terms
• Field types: boolean, numbers, files,
lists, text, taxonomy term, node body

44. UPDATE MANAGER

45. UPDATE MANAGER

46. UPDATE MANAGER

47. Themer
changes

48. LESS THEMES?!?

49. MORE REGIONS

50. BETTER *.TPL.PHP FILES
• Rethought XHTML structure
• Standardized classes and IDs (.section, #navigation)
• More consistent variables ($classes)
• render() - HTML rendering per element
• Readable block identifiers

51. MORE AND BETTER JS
• jQuery 1.3
• jQuery Forms 2.2
• jQuery UI 1.7
• drupal_add_library() -
for CSS+JS packages

52. A LOT MORE
• Testing is part of the DNA now (testing.drupal.org)
• New database abstraction layer
• Field API
• New file/stream handling backend (eg. S3 support)
• Better scalability (eg. CDN support)
• Unified APIs (bye-bye most $op arguments)

53. A LOT MORE
• RDFa support (eg. export of nodes, comments, etc.)
• Way easier to build install profiles
• Queue API for long running tasks
• Improved node access system
• Version based dependency support

54. #D7CX
• Contributed modules should be ready as D7
is released
• http://cyrve.com/d7cx

55. EVEN MORE INFORMATION
• CHANGELOG.TXT
• http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7
• http://drupal.org/update/theme/6/7
• http://drupal.org/project/coder

56. THANKS AGAIN
These slides were based on Angela
Byron’s Drupalcon Paris session slides.
Thanks to her for the initial content and
some of the screenshots.

57. Gábor Hojtsy
gabor@hojtsy.hu