Drupal Development Using Features

Randall KnutsonLevelTen Interactive

The power of Drupal

Drupal stores both content and configuration in the database

Content Configuration

The problem with Drupal

Drupal stores both content and config in the database

Development Staging Production

Splitting content and configuration

Content Configuration Configuration Content

It's not that easy

With config in files, you can't do browser based configuration

Content Configuration

The solution

Features allows config in either the database, files or both

Content & Configuration Configuration

Features

How features works

Changes in the browser are saved to the database

Features

Features can replace what is in database

Features

(Update)

Features can write this to a file

Features

(Revert)

When reading, database takes precedence

Features

Files are read when nothing in database

Features