Essential Drupal 8 Developer Training

Drupal Camp Asheville 2024 - July 12th-14th

Room
406
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Presenter(s)

Jonathan Daggerhart
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Hook 42

Long time PHP and JavaScript developer, Jonathan Daggerhart (@daggerhart) is one of the organizers of Drupal Camp Asheville and maintains various open source projects for both Drupal and WordPress.

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Intended for developers who have no, or limited, experience with Drupal 8 or OOP. Familiarity with Drupal 7 will be beneficial but isn't required. This workshop will help jump start your Drupal 8 coding work by laying the foundation for all the big concepts that have been recently introduced. More than just teaching these ideas, I will attempt to provide understanding behind the potential motivations for these changes and how they relate to the work you're already familiar with from Drupal 7 or other procedural frameworks/CMSs.

We'll discuss and write a custom module together that uses all of these concepts:

  • Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
  • PSR4: Namespaces and Autoloading
  • What is Symfony?
  • Drupal 8 file structure - What you need to know.
  • YAML files & Annotations
  • Services
  • Hooks vs Events
  • Custom Forms
  • Custom Block Types

By the end of this workshop you should be significantly more knowledgable about how Drupal 8 has changed and understand why those changes are considered improvements on Drupal 7's code base.

It will be useful to come to this training with a local development environment where you can write and run PHP. Having a Drupal 8 site to work with would be beneficial, but isn't completely necessary.