Jennifer Lampton (jenlampton) of Jeneration Web Development joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello to talk about the most-excellent new theme engine forthcoming in Drupal 8: twig. Jen tells us everything that’s wrong with theming in Drupal 7, and how twig in Drupal 8 will be like riding a pure white unicorn on candy-coated road across an aqua-blue sky so much better. WYSIWYG in core, microcopy, documentation, and some really good picks of the week are also covered in the last ever 2-digit DrupalEasy podcast!
Four Stories
- DrupalCon Sydney Twig presentation, Pixelmord’s twig sandbox.
- WYSIWYG in core.
- Big Trouble in Little Content: Planning for Reusable Microcopy blog post by Jeff Eaton (eaton).
- New Drupal Documentation leader: Lee Hunter. Dries’s announcement, Lee’s blog post.
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Picks of the Week
- Mike - Admin Views module by Daniel F. Kudwien (sun), Daniel Wehner (dawehner), Damian Lee (damiankloip), and Yonas Yanfa (fizk).
- Ryan - Discover L.A. - about the site.
- Jen - Honeypot module by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy).
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Comments
Thanks for the Shout-out!
Thanks for mentioning Honeypot on the podcast this week!
-Jeff Geerling
Bad link to Twig presentation
there's a comma at the end of the link so it doesn't work properly and show a 404
thanks!
Thanks - I fixed the twig presentation link.
-mike
Debugging with PHPTemplate
The statement made by Jen Lampton that it was not possible to do step-through debugging of template files using the PHPTemplate engine is incorrect. I have been doing exactly that for years using XDebug and my Komodo IDE (and other IDEs), all the way back to Drupal 5. I just set a breakpoint in my IDE at a <?php print; ?> line, enable the XDebug Helper extension (in FF and Chrome) and the code will stop there when processing the template file, just like it does in any other php file.
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Thanks Jennifer Lampton. You explained an nice article. Twig is such a modern template engine for PHP. It is fast, secure and flexible and we can make a beautiful custom template by using it.