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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985203
Length 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding Configuration Management FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration Management for Administrators 3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management 4. The Configuration Management API 5. The Anatomy of Schema Files 6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module 7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration 8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites 9. Useful Tools and Getting Help Index

Upgrading your variables


When upgrading your variables from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8, you first need to identify whether the variables are a simple configuration (for example, the number of nodes displayed to a user) or whether you need to create a more complex configuration object (for example, an image style). Some variables, though, are not meant to be permanent (for example, the time of the last Cron run); additionally, therefore, you will have to decide if it should be a configuration (which is permanent by definition) or a state (which reflects information about the current site's state, but we will come back to this later).

Simple configuration

Let's start with a simple example and a simple variable to convert. Simple variables are, for example, the number of nodes on the front page, the name of your site, or whether your site is in maintenance mode.

We assume that our module built for Drupal 7 uses variables to store settings that a user might configure. So, the module provides a small...

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