simple steps to upgrading your modules to drupal 8

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Simple Steps To Upgrading Your Modules To Drupal 8

Drupal 8 got released on November 19th, 2015 and with time its has gotten stable. Now is the

right time to upgrade your Drupal 7 modules to Drupal 8.

There Are Two Ways By Which You Can Upgrade Your Module To Drupal 8 They Are As Follows :

1. Upgrade Module to Drupal 8 Automatically Using Drupal Module Upgrade .

2. Upgrade Module to Drupal 8 Manually.

1. Upgrade Module to Drupal 8 Automatically Using Drupal Module Upgrade :

This Module is run through command-line script:

First it scans the source of a Drupal 7 module which is to be upgraded.


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After scanning it flags the codes that requires updating to Drupal 8.

It also points out the relevant API changes and automatically converts the Drupal 7 code to

Drupal 8 version.

The goal is to ensures that there is coverage for most widely-used Drupal hooks and

automatically convert them.

Note : This module may not convert all the Drupal 7 codes to Drupal 8.

2. Upgrade Module to Drupal 8 Manually :

Steps to Upgrade your Module to Drupal 8 manually are as follows :

Before you start: Setting up a Drupal 8 module dev environment

Step 1: Convert your mymodule.info file to mymodule.info.yml file

Step 2: Convert your automated tests to Drupal 8

Step 3: Convert hook_menu() and forms in your module to Drupal 8 Configurtation

Step 4: Convert Drupal 7 Variables in your module to Drupal 8 Configuration

Step 5: How to upgrade D7 variables to D8's state system

Do debugging to your Drupal 8 module upgrades

Resources and tutorials

There are so many Contributed modules from Drupal 7 which has been moved to Drupal 8 core

and some many Drupal 7 Core modules which has been removed from Drupal 8 Core which are

given below.

List Of Modules Added To Drupal 8 Core :

1. Action

2. Ban

3. HTTP Basic authentication

4. Breakpoint

5. Caption filter (part of filter module)

6. CKEditor (ckeditor)

7. Configuration Translation module

8. content_translation


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9. CTools

10. Entity Reference module

11. Date module

12. Text Editor (editor)

13. email

14. entity

15. entity_reference

16. hal

17. history

18. language

19. link

20. menu_link

21. migrate

22. migrate_drupal

23. number

24. options

25. Quick Edit

26. Responsive Image (responsive_image)

27. rest

28. serialization

29. telephone

30. text

31. tour

32. Views

33. Views UI

34. Xmlrpc

The Following Drupal Modules Have Been Removed From Drupal 8 Core :

Blog module: Blog was removed from Drupal 8 core as part of a meta issue to make Drupal 8

core more maintainable. With the help of Fields,Views and Content Types (available in core) can

build similar to blog

Dashboard module: The Dashboard module is removed from Drupal 8 Core and is now

available as a contributed Module.


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Design test module: In Drupal 7, Style Guide module is more popular.

Number module: Email and number field types are moved to Drupal core Fields.

List module: List module is merged with Options module.

OpenID module: The OpenID module is removed from Drupal 8 core and is now available as a

contributed module.

Overlay module: The new Drupal 8 toolbar now has a “back to site" button which has the same

use-case as overlay module, it allows site users to return from the admin page that they were

on.

PHP filter module: The PHP Filter module has been removed from Drupal 8 core for futher

information go to https://drupal.org/node/2088811.

Poll module: The Poll module is removed from Drupal 8 core and is now available as a

contributed module. There are also other contributed modules which provide similar polling

functionality.

Profile module: The profile module has been removed from Drupal 8 core.

Trigger module: A contributed module Rules provides similar functionality. Trigger module is

available as contributed module.

How We Can Help You?

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