Drupal 8 Configuration Management - Softcover

Borchert, Stefan; Schirwinski, Anja

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783985208 ISBN 13: 9781783985203

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Make the most of Drupal 8's coolest new feature the Configuration Management system

About This Book

• Understand Configuration Management from a non-developer perspective
• Achieve a faster moving configuration between environments
• Create custom configuration inside your own modules

Who This Book Is For

Drupal 8 Configuration Management is intended for people who use Drupal 8 to build websites, whether you are a hobbyist using Drupal for the first time, a long-time Drupal site builder, or a professional web developer.

In Detail

With all the complex configuration options of Drupal, the Configuration Management system allows you to keep track of your configuration and move configuration changes between several development environments with ease.

Drupal 8 Configuration Management will teach you everything you need to know about the Configuration Management system and get you started with using its features quickly. For more advanced users, the book explains how to use the API to add custom configuration and how to upgrade custom modules to use the new Configuration Management system, covering some essential tools and best practices. It will teach you to write schema files for custom configuration and upgrade modules to the new Configuration Management system. Additionally, you will learn how to migrate configuration from Drupal 6 and 7 to Drupal 8 and how to manage configuration for multilingual websites.

About this title

About the Author

Stefan Borchert

Stefan Borchert has been working with Drupal for more than 9 years. In the community, he is better known by his nickname stBorchert. He contributes to Drupal by writing contributed modules, helping with Drupal Core, and providing help to new contributors as a project application review administrator. He is a founding partner and senior Drupal developer at undpaul, a Drupal Digital Agency based in Germany.

Anja Schirwinski

Anja Schirwinski got to know Drupal more than 8 years ago as a themer/site builder and went on to build several very different web applications with it for the company she worked for. She has been a participating member of the Drupal community since 2007, known by the nickname aschiwi. From 2009-2010, Anja was the deputy chair of the Drupal Initiative, a registered association that promotes Drupal in Germany. She is the cofounder and CEO of undpaul, one of the first Drupal-only digital agencies in Germany. She founded the company in 2010 with friends she met at a local Drupal user group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783985208
• ISBN 13: 9781783985203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148