The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 3

Hello!

We selected for you the most interesting and useful things from the world of Drupal in the first weeks of 2015.


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In Russian

1. First, a new platform for the DrupalifeCommunity community was launched in test mode. Word author:
   

   I will immediately tell you about the fate of the project. I do not pretend to replace them with Drupal.ru, this is a completely separate and independent undertaking. Let's just say an alternative community, like some kind of tried to become DrupalSN.

   
   Several drupal gurus have already been noticed on the new site, and this is a good sign :)
   
2. Almost the first serious article in Russian, in which the words Drupal and Postgres are simultaneously found: “ Drupal performance testing: MySQL vs PostgreSQL part 1 ”. We are looking forward to the following parts!
3. Continuing the topic of databases, Roman Agabekov writes in detail about the replication of the master-slave MySQL .
4. As without Panels: this time, " Add support for Token's settings in Panel Pane ."
5. “Antiques” rubric: five-year exposure librusek code .

Drupal lite

In this section we have collected some good notes for those who have just started working with Drupal.

1. Add a checkbox to the material .
2. Modules to improve usability lists . Do not forget to look at the comments.
3. Drupal date and time formats .
4. In the system of the theme in Drupal, at first you can get confused. The note " How to override the field templates in Drupal 7 " helps to understand how field patterns work.
5. One of the ways to create a Drag & Drop interface in Views is the DraggbleViews module.
6. The best materials of 2014 according to TheWeeklyDrop.
7. Well, Habrovsky review of materials for the study of Drupal , of course.

All for Drupal developer

1. Let's start with a series of articles about Drush, a tool without which a drupal would not be a drupal: part 1 , part 2 and part 3 .
   If you suddenly feel sad and lonely, just type drush --druplicon :)
2. Today, dev-environment virtualization has already become standard. The guys from Blink Reaction wrote a novel in 5 parts about Vagrant and Drupal: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 .
3. While the creator of Drupal Drys Buytart dines and sleeps with the eight , lightweight fork fork Drupal Backdrop CMS celebrates its first release. By the way, about holidays: the most drupal is already 14 (!) Years old .
4. Backdrop CMS is a full-featured part of the Drupal community. Such a conclusion can be made by reading a whole U-turn about this fork in the official Drupal-journal.
5. A fundamental work on Panels for developers was prepared in Palantir: Explaining Panels: An Overview for Drupal Developers .
6. Drupal.org has released a selection of solutions and modules that will help build and customize their CRM.
7. If you need to extend the functionality of the Context module to your needs, then pay attention to the article “ Creating a Context Plugin ”.
8. Yury Gerasimov in his blog shows by example why #theme_wrappers might be useful .

Drupal 8

1. If the code is not in the mood, then here are eight overview videos about the eighth version of Drupal .
2. An excellent guide to changes in the Form API will help to deal with the forms, even green beginners. Without the help of a good IDE, of course, it will be difficult.
3. Akshay Kalose from Sri Lanka within the framework of Google Summer of Code studied Drupal 8 from scratch and wrote a whole module for it: RDF UI . She also wrote a helpful article about AJAX in Drupal 8 .
4. A couple of short notes on Twig: add a variable to the template , re-use a piece of the Twig-template .
5. Creating your Views-Handler in the eight is almost the same as in the seven. See for yourself .

Interesting modules

1. DataBase Email Encryption to encrypt email addresses in the database.
2. Field Split for Display Suite or Field Group.
3. Query Parameters To URL for Views (kernel patch required).
4. Panels, Why so slow? for profiling panels.
5. Paragraphs - an easy replacement for Panels
6. Smart Trim ( video )
7. Entityform instead of Webform ( large tutorial )
8. Superfish ( video )
9. Auto Assign Role ( video )
10. Views Usage Audit , Views Maintenance and Views cache bully for maintaining Views.

Oleg Kot and Katya Marshalkina worked on the issue. This is the third release on Habré (here 1 and 2 ). Thanks to Drupal and our readers for inspiration :)
We will be glad to comment, suggestions and additions!