Posted by rlhawk on December 3, 2015 at 8:48pm
Start:
2015-12-17 18:00 - 19:30 America/Los_Angeles Event type:
User group meeting
We will meet at 6 pm on Thursday, December 17
Learn about Drupal and meet local Drupal enthusiasts.
Agenda
- Introductions
- Announcements
- Drupal News
- What’s New in Front End Development in Drupal 8
- The State of Contributed Modules and Themes for Drupal 8
Event Details:
Now that Drupal 8 has been released, it's time to get serious about building sites with it. Mike Keran will present about changes to front end development in D8 and Rick Hawkins will talk about the current state of D8 versions of popular contributed modules and themes.
Thursday, December 17, 6:00pm - 7:30pm.
Northwest Worklofts, 3131 Western Ave (at Denny), Seattle
Sponsored by Fuse IQ
Coworking is available from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Drip City (2929 1st Avenue (between Broad and Eagle); Map)
Comments
Drupal 8 Contrib Porting Tracker
A centralized place for tracking the porting status of contributed projects (modules, themes, distributions).
https://www.drupal.org/project/contrib_tracker
--> https://contribkanban.com/board/contrib_tracker
D8!
Super excited to start in on the D8 presentations!
Would love to here about any work folks are doing on D6/7 -> D8 migrations as well.
-jared
D8 and PHP requirements
I tried installing D8 on my managed VPS server, and found out that D8 requires a higher version of php than is installed. Would love to hear some advice on upgrading php on the server and how it would impact my Drupal/WordPress/Joomla clients.
What version of PHP are you
What version of PHP are you moving from and to? Between 5.3 and 5.4 the biggest change you'll see is better performance. The PHP website has a full list of functions removed in 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, and 7.0 (just released a couple days ago).
If you're coming from 5.3, the biggest change that would affect older code bases (eg: Drupal 6.x -- Views in particular) is the removal of pass-by-reference. In 5.3 it would raise a notice but now raises an error. (It's also very easy to fix...)
Nevermind PHP 5.4...
Duh... Forgot that 5.5.3 is the min for D8. Big bonus with PHP 5.5 is built-in opcode caching. No more headaches setting up APC!
PHP upgrade
Server is currently running 5.3.29. Fortunately, my D6 sites are on another server. If all I have to worry about is better performance, I can certainly handle that!
Any recommendations on which version of php to move to? Looks like I only have D7 and hand-coded HTML/CSS sites (remember those?) that don't have any php calls on the server.
Hi, Marc, We've moved most of
Hi, Marc,
We've moved most of our infrastructure to Nginx with PHP running in Docker containers, which makes it (relatively) easy to run multiple versions of PHP on the same server...
Some details here: http://www.freelock.com/blog/john-locke/2015-07/drupal-docker-pinch-salt
... so we run most D6 sites in PHP5.3 (from Ubuntu 12.04) and anything newer in PHP5.6 (currently from Ubuntu 15.10). That's working great for us...
It also allows you to mix-and-match all sorts of different versions of different server components, without needing an entire server upgrade.
We'll probably try out PHP7 pretty soon here...
Cheers,
John
Meeting tonight!
Join us tonight for the last SeaDUG meeting of 2015. We'll be talking about Drupal 8, specifically front-end development and the state of contributed modules for D8.