Mac Clemmens

Or, How to Make Money Building Sites with Drupal. And Keep Your Hair. And Your Clients.

Drupal 8 has a new theme engine: Twig. Twig provides several advantages over PHPtemplate, our previous theme engine, including: Security, Performance (probably), and Ease of Use. Though we all know and love PHPTemplate, Drupal is not really using the PHPTemplate theme engine anymore. In order to overcome the shortfalls we encountered, we solved problems by creating a Drupal-specific combination of PHPTemplate and giant renderable "Arrays of Doom". Though the current solution was infinitely flexible for those who understand it - we've managed to produce a theme layer that is painfully frustrating to use, for all the people who needed it most.

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It's time! The very first meeting of the East Bay Drupal Users Group is happening after work on Wednesday, February 27th. The topic is Drupal Content Staging, and we have a great feature presentation by the legendary Dave Cohen. While he is perhaps best known as the author of the Drupal for Facebook module (http://drupal.org/project/fb) Dave has also done terrific work on many different aspects of Drupal development. For this, the first official EBDUG Meeting, Dave will present an updated version of his talk: "Drupal Staging Problem (revisited)." Come learn how Dave has crafted a technique involving intrigue, daring, and a few carefully crafted scripts to attack "the Drupal Staging Problem." Read more about it here: http://ebdug.org/sessions/101-drupal-staging