Stefan Borchert, Anja Schirwinski - Drupal 8 Configuration Management [2015, PDF/ePub, ENG]

1: Understanding Configuration Management
An introduction to Configuration Management
Why manage configuration?
Tracking configuration changes
A look back at Drupal 7
How Drupal 8 takes care of Configuration Management
Using version control to keep track of configuration changes
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2: Configuration Management for Administrators
Why do we want to manage our configuration?
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3: Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management
The config directory
Config and schema files – what are they and what are they used for?
Learning the difference between active and staging directories
Simple configuration versus configuration entities
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4: The Configuration Management API
A simple configuration API
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5: The Anatomy of Schema Files
What are schema files in Drupal?
Properties
Data types
Dynamic type references
Coding standards
PHP API
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6: Adding Configuration Management to Your Module
Default configuration
Defining and using your own configuration
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7: Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration
Upgrading your variables
Providing an upgrade path for your variables
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8: Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites
Multilingual sites in Drupal 7
Translating in Drupal 8
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9: Useful Tools and Getting Help
Community documentation
The administration guide documentation
Contributed modules
Configuration development
Drush
Forums
The issue queue
IRC chat
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