Introduction to Drupal 7 - Working with features
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Introduction to Drupal 7 Bonus Session (Session 5.3) Features 1 Course by Init Lab (http://initlab.org) Drupalist: Kalin Chernev
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Short overview on Features module in Drupal 7. It's more a plus rather than obligatory. Still, dividing your project into features and managing them with the Features is highly recommended.
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Introduction to Drupal 7
Bonus Session (Session 5.3)
Features
1Course by Init Lab (http://initlab.org)Drupalist: Kalin Chernev
Agenda
• What is Features and reasons to use
• Advantages of using Features
• Common ways to compile functionalities
• Enabling a feature
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Features
• A Drupal modules: http://drupal.org/project/features
• Set of combined Drupal functionalities
• Configurations from database into code
• Reusable functionalities through websites
• A Drupal feature might be
– Dynamic news section
– Dynamic gallery section
– Block with latest registered members
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Features
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Source: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/features-module
Advantages of using Features
• Export of database configurations into code
• Code can be kept into versioning system
• Code can be easily transferred through different website instances
• You can reuse functionalities and save time
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Common features combinations
The most important paradigm is to separate functionalities in a way to keep them independent from each other. If you want and do a change in time, it should not affect other features in the best case
Common combinations are– Content type + its fields + the view they use
– Views pages and blocks with their panels
– Content type + Views
– Taxonomy vocabularies by purpose
– Roles and permissions by role/purpose
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Enabling features
• Features can be enabled as any other module
• Features can be also enabled from the Features management panel at the Administration > Structure > Features
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Useful links on Features
• Bundling site settings using Features
• Making and Using Features in Drupal
• Introduction to Drupal Features module
• The Features Module (again Lullabot)
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Time for questions
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Contacts
Kalin Chernev
– E: [email protected]
– T: twitter.com/kalinchernev
– U: http://shtrak.eu/kalata
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