Drupal 8 for Stanford Community

Let's discuss Drupal 8 development on campus.

Feel free to add your notes here.

• Configuring file browser - useful article from Lullabot https://www.lullabot.com/articles/common-pitfalls-when-configuring-entity-browser-in-drupal-8

Unconference style session today :)

Topics to discuss:

• Hosting
• SAML
• Internal services (such as CAP)
• Theming
• When is Drupal 8 going to be up on Stanford Sites?
• Migration/making the changeover
• DrupalCamps and Cons
• Love and thanks

Hosting

• Earth wanted to host off-site, ultimately went with Acquia after a big comparison
• Options (and opinions):
  • Acquia: good for multiple sites
  • Pantheon: good for an individual site, Drupal, Wordpress
  • Platform sh: multiple options: Drupal, Wordpress, Vanilla php
• Considerations:
  • Cost (over time)
• SWS looking into moving their hosting and migrating to the cloud
• Master services agreement with Acquia
• University’s preferred hosting solution for Drupal 8 is Acquia

Authenication / SAML

• Earth and Fibonacci have both been working on this

• SimpleSAMLphp

  • Drupal module SimpleSAMLphp auth

  • Once SimpleSAML is set up, this module can be used basically as-is

  • Acquia has documentation on this (https://docs.acquia.com/articles/using-simplesamlphp-acquia-cloud-site)

  • Stanford-specific documentation: https://opensource.stanford.edu/events/simplesamlphp-login

    • https://opensource.stanford.edu/sunet-authentication-drupal-using-simplesamlphp

    • This should probably go on UIT services knowledge base once it is cleaned up a bit

​​​Internal services

• Stanford Profiles

  • Goal at this point is a lightweight module: pull data from CAP API to Drupal (accounts, nodes, etc.)

  • A more fully featured CAPx module would be more work and would require feed imports, etc.

• Stanford Events

  • Similar issues as Profiles

• Courses

• SWS working on a theme for Drupal 8

  • Breathing new life into Stanford Basic

    • Stanford Basic is available on GitHub to explore on the SWS repo - https://github.com/SU-SWS/stanford_basic

    • Fibonacci-light theme also available on GitHub - https://github.com/borisay/fibonacci_light

  • Components based development

• ​Drupal 8 on sites

  • First installation program in discovery and development

  • No release date yet, but tossing out 2018

​Migrations

• Moving things between Drupal instances is the biggest problem with Drupal 8
• If you’re upgrading, it’s fine (internal migrate modules)
• Migrate plus module
• Feeds module not working on Drupal 8
• Fibonacci working with module maintainer and there is a patch that allows csv import with feeds… hopefully it will be pushed to Drupal.org soon!  If you want to join this effort, please do! (https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds)

• Nothing beats a manual migration in terms of looking at and refreshing content

• Drupal 7 is still great! You can still wait on Drupal 8 (maybe wait for the install profiles from SWS if you have a reasonably standard site).

  • Not a big difference, especially for the end user.

​​Drupal Camps and Cons

• Stanford
• Nashville
• Florida
• Chicago
• Other
• Love and thanks