My presentation on PHP Day Vietnam 2012 (phpday.vn) about rapid web developement with Drupal tools

1. HUDO - Technical Leader at GeekPolis
hudo@geekpolis.com
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2. About Me
 Geekpolis Technical Leader
 Built themeski.com premium
Drupal theme system.
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3. Outline
 Discuss about problems when develop
web with Drupal.
 Discover some special tools
 Resources
 Demo.
 Q&A
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4. Dev Production
Test
Dev 1
Dev Dev
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Sharing database dump
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5. Dev Production
Test
Dev 1
Conflict
Speed
Dev Dev Reused
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Sharing database dump
How to fix that ? 5

6. Features
Solutions
Make File
Drush
GIT
High Speed
High Quality
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7. Features
 Sharing database dumps
 Not ideal for a distributed team
 Make it difficult to push settings to production.
 Content and settings is mixed in one db dump.
 Easy lose control.
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8. Features
 Put everything in code
 Code can be versioned.
 Conflicts can be solved.
 Content and settings are separated.
 Easy to push changes to production.
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9. Features
 Storing configuration in code
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10. Make file
Core
Features Modules
Profile Themes
Libraries
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12. Drush
 Drush is a command line shell and scripting
interface for Drupal.
 Drush is not a module.
 Commons command:
 drush pm-download cck views
 drush pm-enable cck views
 drush pm-disable cck views
 drush pm-uninstall cck views
 drush status
 drush pm-update
 drush cache-clear (Clear all Cache)
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14. GIT
 Git is a free and open source distributed
version control system designed to
handle everything from small to very
large projects with speed and efficiency
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15. Demo time!
 Discover commons Drush commands.
 Export features
 Generate make file
 Build profile
 Manage version with Git.
 Work flow in small team work.
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16. Resources
 Drush
 http://drush.ws/
 Make file
 http://drupal.org/node/1432374
 http://drushmake.me/
 Features
 http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode43
 http://2012.badcamp.net/sites/default/files/slides/Features%20B
ADcamp_0.pdf
 WorkFlow
 http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jul/09/development-
staging-production-workflow-problem-drupal/Features
 Git
 http://git-scm.com/
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