DrupalCon Notes. Drupal 8 - Plugins

September 22, 2015

A visual and technical deep dive

What is a Plugin?

Heliors' definition: A discreet class that executes an operation withing the context of a given scope, as a means to extend Drupal’s functionality

Kris' definition: A discoverable class that implements a particular interface which adds or extends a pluggable subsystem

DrupalCon Notes. Symfony for Drupal Developers

September 22, 2015

Symfony 2

• Tier 1 PHP framework
• Loosely coupled
• Helped inspire PHP 5.3 era revolution
• Incubator for Composer

DrupalCon Notes. Symfony2 - The Journey from the Request to Response

September 22, 2015

Philosophy

• Symfony is a HTTP framework not an MVC framework
• HTTP request -> Front Controller -> HttpKernel -> Routing Component -> Controller -> Model/View -> HttpFoundation response