Having Fun with Drupal 8, PHP libraries and the Drupal.org API

A overview and demo of some of the open source projects that I’ve been working on lately that are based on information from the Drupal.org API, including a PHP library for the API itself as well as some Drupal 8 modules that use it.

This session will cover various topics including:

• Why would you want to separate your code into reusable packages
• An overview of how to structure a PHP package (e.g. an API for interacting with Drupal.org)
• How to add a PHP package as a dependency for a Drupal module using Composer
• How to create routes and services, and use dependency injection in Drupal 8
• How to use Drupal to configure the packages
• How to increase performance and reliability by using Drupal's cache system to store API results

Links

• Drupal.org API library
• Drupal.org API documentation
• Laravel Collections
• Example module: Drupal.org project statistics
• Example module: Drupalversary
• Talk: Using Laravel Collections outside Laravel

Slides

Video

Events

• Drupal Bristol in Bristol, UK - April 18th, 2018
• DrupalCamp London 2019 in London, UK - March 3rd, 2019