We're getting closer to that difficult stage. You know, that point where we're nearing a new major Drupal release. That point where customers with flexible delivery dates who are thinking about starting a new project are asking if they should wait for Drupal 8 to come out or build on Drupal 7.
Those of us who went through the Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 release know what I'm talking about. Do I build it on Drupal 6 or do I chance it on Drupal 7 and work through any missing modules.
We're not there yet for Drupal 8, but we already have customers asking us to develop Drupal 7 sites in a fashion sympathetic to Drupal 8.
So what does that mean? Well we have a few pointers on starting new Drupal 7 modules that will be easier to upgrade to Drupal 8 when the time comes. We'll present these in a new Drupal 8 Now! series of blog posts.
One of our recent projects had the following requirements:
Users receive points for creating/commenting on content
When they receive a certain points balance they are awarded some goodies in the mail
When they receive the achievement a notification email should be sent to the user and an admin
Setting this up with Userpoints, Userpoints Rules and Rules was fairly straightforward but as part of our Agile processes, the story isn't done until there is automated testing.
Read on to learn how we setup testing the email and their contents using Behat.
Friday February 14th is the DrupalSouth Code Sprint, and PreviousNext are descending en masse to Wellington, New Zealand, to participate.
As a team we've been discussing what we'd like to sprint on. We've collectively agreed that the sprint would be an opportune time to work on porting some of our favourite contrib modules to Drupal 8.
Read on to find out our plans and how you can get involved.
It is common knowledge that Drupal 8 contains Views module, thanks to the work from the Views in Drupal Core (VDC) initiative.
Our contribution to the VDC initiative was working on abstracting Views UI's modal pattern into a generic modal API in core.
Recently one of the coolest pieces of this API was committed to core.
You can now load any content in a modal simply by adding a class and an attribute to any link.
Sound cool? Read on to learn more.
Drupal 8 comes with a new guided help API in the form of the Tour module. PreviousNext put a lot of effort into getting this module into Drupal 8 core prior to feature freeze and are excited by the possibilities it presents to ease the learning curve for new Drupal site-builders.
In part 1 of this post - we told the tale of how this module came to fruition. In this post, part 2, we provide examples of how you can add tour module support to your modules and talk about some of the advanced features of the API.
Drupal 8 comes with a new guided help API in the form of the Tour module.
Here at PreviousNext we were instrumental in getting this module in prior to feature freeze and are excited by the possibilities it presents to ease the learning curve for new Drupal site-builders.
In this post we discuss how the module came about, how we went about building support for the idea and the way the API works.
In part two we will go on to show some examples of how you can add tour module support to your modules and talk about some of the advanced features of the API.
We've entered the clean-up phase of the Drupal 8 release cycle. Drupal 8 is shaping up to be the best Drupal release to date - with a raft of new features and a less Drupal-centric developer experience.
So the question on everyone's lips is, when will Drupal 8 be released? The answer is the same as it has always been, 'When it is ready'!
We can't wait to start working with Drupal 8 on a daily basis. The new features will make our day-to-day jobs so much easier and our development workflow so much cleaner.
So to this effect, I'm aiming to work on one patch per day from now until the Drupal 8 release.
Will you join me in the Drupal 8 Patch a Day Challenge? Read on for more details.