Drupal 8 is the version of Drupal currently in development which will be the next major release.
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Manually Disable Module in Drupal 8
In Drupal 7, I could manually edit the {system} table in the database to disable a stubbon module. In my Drupal 8 site, this table is gone.
How can I manually disable a module in Drupal 8?
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Is it acceptable to modify Drupal's composer.json file?
Drupal adheres to the best-practice of never modifying core.
Drupal 8 has a composer.json file built into core, if you need to add a third-party library, should you modify composer.json, or is there ...
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Lime for Drupal 8?
Now that Drupal 8 is going to be based mostly on Symfony, is the TDD/unit-testing going to change too?
For Symfony, Lime is the preferred testing-suite. Is that true for Drupal8?
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Panels vs theming
Panels versus themes: What is the best way?
Since Panels is included in Drupal 8 core, isn't it the way forward? Do we still need to design static HTML pages and then integrate them with Drupal, or ...
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Theme folder in drupal 8
In Drupal 8, the theme folder for contributed themes seemed to have moved.
Where do themes go in drupal 8?
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Post-installation PHP crash (Drupal 8) [closed]
I decided to give a shy try to Drupal 8. Installation went quite smooth, but when everything was ready to hit the home page I was delighted with the following error:
CRASH: PHP segmentation ...
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How much of Drupal 8 will rely on or be compatible with Symfony?
Now that Drupal 8 is being redeveloped with Symfony, and we are just about to go into the code freeze so that early adopters can start playing with it, what will it affect?
Will we be able to write ...
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Is it better to learn Drupal 7, or wait 4 months for Drupal 8?
I know someone ask this question 2 years ago, but then everybody answered him that he should learn drupal 7, since we had 2 more years before a first official release of Drupal 8. Now we have only 4 ...
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How do I set the path to a custom view style template? [closed]
I have created a custom view style in a module. It shows up in the list of view styles, but when I try to output the resulting block I get the message:
Warning: ...
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Is Drupal 8 with views in core stable enough to be used as a simple blog?
I want to start using the new drupal 8 codebase, but I was wondering if I can use it in its state now as a simple blog using views.
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Developing modules for Drupal 8 / Converting from D7 to D8 [closed]
I am thinking about developing a huge web application in Drupal. In a year Drupal 8 will probably be released.
How big are the differences between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 due of the use of Symfony 2 ...
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Creating Drupal 8 route for AJAX requests
How should I implement a callback to a single Drupal class (in my case it's Transliteration). I don't need a full Drupal load/bootstrap, but one independent class.
The purpose of the AJAX code would ...
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Has anyone given a projected date for Spark availability? [closed]
I've hunted around and can find nothing published that hints at the expected availability of Spark, but I'm sure someone in the community has some idea of what is expected. Has Dries or Wim or ...
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Do we really need Blog module in Drupal 7 (and 8)? [closed]
In Drupal 7, the Blog module do not have any option to change the URL. Because I want a different URL, I build blogs without the Blog module. For blog pages, I make it using Views and theme ...
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Getting Parse Error during installation of Drupal 8
I am getting following error during my Installation of Drupal 8
Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING' or `'('' in var\www\html\core\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 3
When ...
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need help in installing version 8: Error 404 localhost Apache/2.2.21 [closed]
I was able to install Drupal 8; on a first glance, all looks great and nice, but every link I click, I get a 404 error.
What could be causing this?
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Is there a firm or preliminary decision on which modules will leave Core for 8?
I seem to recall I've seen a more than one discussion about breaking out certain less than maintained modules from Core. They would presumably be moved to contrib instead. Currently I can't find any ...
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Will UUID be incorporated into D8? [closed]
Right now UUID is a module and it would seem a good idea to attach UUIDs to entities if it is planned for integration.
I have not found any discussions of this being applied so does anyone know ...
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Is it better to learn Drupal 7, or Drupal 8?
In January of 2011 Drupal 7 was launched officially, and the latest Drupal 7 version is 7.7 (in 7 months). So, it seems that Drupal 8 will appear very fast. I have several years working with Drupal 6 ...
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Which contrib modules are being moved into Drupal 8 core?
There were a significant number of D6 modules (or versions of) that were pulled into D7 core. I am wondering if there are any for D8?
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Which menu should a third-party module choose, between “Structure” and “Configuration”?
I noticed that some module prefers to add their menu items under "Structure," while other modules prefer to add them under "Configuration."
I thought that the reason of choosing "Structure" was ...
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Are there any document that report how to write code that will be compatible with Drupal 8 or higher versions?
Documentation pages for some functions report the functions have deprecated parameters.
Is there a documentation about how to write code that is compatible with Drupal 8? If there is such ...
