DrupalJax meetup #16 Report

REPORT:

Attendees:
Michael Frank
Corey Grusden
Brad O'Donnel
Rick Torzynski
Manish Jain
Sergey Cheban
Justin Witt
Priya Ganesan
Keith
Kunal Patel
Jitesh Doshi

Once again, Justin and Modis sponsored pizza and soft drinks (THANKS!)

LIGHTING TALKS:

Symfony framework intro: by Kunal Patel
Kunal spoke about and showed some sample code on the basics of Symfony framework, composer, twig and doctrine.

I18N and Mobile theming: by Rick Torzynski
Rick showed what he has been working on at his client regarding internationalization (4 languages - EN, PT, FR and ES). Also showed how he converted a regular flyout menu into an accordion style menu just for mobile clients.

Drupal "services" and AngularJS: by Jitesh Doshi
Jitesh showed how to configure Drupal's "services" module to turn Drupal into a REST server and serve nodes and other entities from it. And then how write very small HTML+JS code using AngularJS to do full CRUD operations on nodes purely over AJAX.