When staging a site from development to production, it is often necessary to export a lot of features that were created in the database. Developers often which it were as simple as updating the code from the latest version found in their cvs/svn/git repositories. Some modules enable you to export their settings to code, which can then be version controlled, but they aren't many and usually the process requires some cut and pasting which can lead to human error. The features module enables you to export some of the more popular Drupal database configurations into code, in a simple and user-friendly way. In this session I will introduce the features module, explain how it works, why it is useful and briefly demonstrate how to use it.

1. Introduction to the Features module João Ventura (jcnventura) [email_address]

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5. Config should be handled in the same VCS that manages the code

6. It should be possible to propagate changes from development to production (specially for a live site)

8. Content copy module

9. hook_node_info()

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11. Features module

13. Features puts configuration into code

15. CCK fields / fieldgroups

16. Views

17. Imagecache

18. Input filters

19. Users roles / permissions

21. Open Layers

27. Questions