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Preface
So what is configuration in Drupal terms?
How it works in Drupal 8
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Understanding Configuration Management
An introduction to Configuration Management
Configuration
Content
Session
State
Why manage configuration?
Tracking configuration changes
Some version control best practices
Using a project management tool
Meaningful commit messages
Meaningful branches
A look back at Drupal 7
Manual Configuration Management
The hook_install()/hook_update_N() function
The Features module
What is the Features module?
Creating a Feature
The settings to export with Features
The settings to not export with Features
The Configuration Management module
Storing configuration variables in settings.php
How Drupal 8 takes care of Configuration Management
How to start using Configuration Management
Using version control to keep track of configuration changes
Types of configuration
Configuration storage and deploying between environments
Summary
2. Configuration Management for Administrators
Why do we want to manage our configuration?
Making a clone of your site
The Configuration Management interface
The interface options
Using full import/export
Single import/export
Summary
3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
The config directory
A simple configuration example
Config and schema files – what are they and what are they used for?
Config files
Schema files
Learning the difference between active and staging directories
Changing the active configuration storage
Changing the storage location of the active and staging directories
Simple configuration versus configuration entities
Simple configuration
Configuration entities
Summary
4. The Configuration Management API
A simple configuration API
Working with configuration data
Retrieving the configuration object
Getting configuration values
Setting configuration values
Removing configuration values
Best practices
Getting notified about configuration changes
Overriding the configuration
Global overrides
Language overrides
Module overrides
Avoiding overrides
Creating configuration entity types
Adding the basics
Taking control of your data
Summary
5. The Anatomy of Schema Files
What are schema files in Drupal?
The structure of a schema file
Properties
Data types
Reusing data types
Making data translatable
Dynamic type references
The element-key references
The sub-key references
The parent-key references
Coding standards
PHP API
Summary
6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module
Default configuration
An example
Defining and using your own configuration
Setting your configuration file
Custom configuration entity types
Using the configuration
Creating a configuration form
Configuration forms in Drupal 7
Creating configuration forms in Drupal 8
Adding a form controller
Route and menu items
The result
Summary
7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration
Upgrading your variables
Simple configuration
Complex configuration objects
Upgrading to the new state system
Providing an upgrade path for your variables
Migrating your data
Source plugins
Process plugins
Destination plugins
Running the migration
Summary
8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
Multilingual sites in Drupal 7
The Locale module
Content translation
Translating other types of content
Translation settings/configuration
Translating entities
Translating in Drupal 8
Configuration translation
Translating the configuration
Storing translations
Exporting and importing configuration translations
Summary
9. Useful Tools and Getting Help
Community documentation
The administration guide documentation
Contributed modules
The configuration inspector for Drupal 8
Configuration development
Drush
Exporting and importing your configuration using Drush commands
Forums
The issue queue
IRC chat
Summary
Questions
Index
Drupal 8 Configuration Management
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Credits
Authors
Stefan Borchert
Anja Schirwinski
Reviewers
Greg Dunlap
Johannes Haseitl
Thomas Keitel
Jose A. Reyero
Dev Saran
Commissioning Editor
Julian Ursell
Acquisition Editor
Kevin Colaco
Content Development Editor
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Technical Editor
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Copy Editors
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Project Coordinator
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About the Authors
Stefan Borchert has been working with Drupal for more than 9 years. In the community, he is better known by his nickname stBorchert. He contributes to Drupal by writing contributed modules, helping with Drupal Core, and providing help to new contributors as a project application review administrator. He is a founding partner and senior Drupal developer at undpaul, a Drupal Digital Agency based in Germany.
Anja Schirwinski got to know Drupal more than 8 years ago as a themer/site builder and went on to build several very different web applications with it for the company she worked for. She has been a parti...