Symfonising with Drupal 8: Symfony2, Drupal 8, PHP-FIG and Why it Matters

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The History of...Musical notation


Pre-historic Music Notation

Music as oral history.

Unable to be communicated beyond time/space.


Early Music Notation

The earliest system of modern european Notation, attributed to Boethius, 480-525 AD, the Roman philosopher, seems to have been the placing of letters over the syllables.


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http://musicofyesterday.com/historical-music-theory/brief-history-notation/


Pope Gregory the Great, 600AD changed this system, uppercase letters and lowercase were used, an improvement, using only the first seven letters of the alphabet.




Another plan was to use a variable number of lines, writing the syllables in the spaces. This developed the idea of music moving higher and lower dependant on pitch.



Early Musical Notation

These methods indicated the pitch sufficiently, but not the duration of the sounds.


Medieval Music Notation

Suggesting characters to indicate duration is usually attributed to Franco of Cologne, 12th century.

In the 13th century the notes in use were the Longa, Brevis and Semibrevis, Duplex Longa, or Maxima, introducing the Minima, and the Semiminima first occur about 1300.



Drupal 8


Highlights of Drupal 8

Views in core



Wysiwyg Editor in core



Entity reference, email, date fieldsin core



simplytest.me(demo)


Symfony2


What is Symfony2?

High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development

http://symfony.com


What does it do?

Web services

REST server

Bundles to extend

Comprised of a set of non-dependant elements


Why Symfony2?

Established community

Mature codebase

Non dependant nature


Symfony ComponentsInDrupal 8


Symfony Components

HttpKernel, HttpFoundation & EventDispatcher Streamlining the process of converting a Request into a Response

YAML Storing and retrieving configuration

Routing URL routing stored in YAML

Twig Theme engine

Serializer, ClassLoader, DependencyInjection, Validator


PHPFramework Interop Group


What is FIG?

The idea behind the group is for project representatives to talk about the commonalities between our projects and find ways we can work together. Our main audience is each other, but were very aware that the rest of the PHP community is watching.


PHP-FIG: Member projects

CakePHP, Composer, Doctrine, Drupal, eZ Publish, TYPO3 Flow, Joomla, Laravel, Lithium, PEAR, Phalcon, Phing, phpBB, phpDocumentor, PrestaShop, PyroCMS, SugarCRM, Symfony2, Wikidata, Yii, Zend Framework 2 (and more)


PSR

PHP Specification Request

PSR-0, PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-3, PSR-4

Standardised PHP


What does this mean?

Wouldn't it be great if you could understand other projects.

Wouldn't it be great if I could take something written in [X] and use it in [Y].


Why Symfony2In Drupal 8?


Code stats

Drupal (http://infogr.am/Drupal-Code-Base?src=web)


VersionSize (mb)Size (files)Lines(php / test / js / css)CommentsModules (prev/new/gone)

Drupal 63.346747182 / 0 / 2363 / 43052412926 / 8 / -3

Drupal 711.4105693750 / 77380 / 5275 / 92219068330 / 11 / -4

Drupal 827.86608237198 / 124456 / 37587 / 1081724759736 / 26 / -3

Drupal 8 (no vendors)19.53949

Code Stats

Maintain THAT!


Idea

Wouldn't it be great if I could take something written in [X] and use it in [Y].


Not finished yet!

But it is not finished yet.


What have we learnt?


Early Musical Notation

Musical notation exists to transfer ideas/music from one person to another.

It enables the player to understand the composers musical idea without them having to explain it.


Musical Standardisation

Standardisation is a process of evolution and iteration. Taking the best ideas from different people and amalgamating them into each other.


Drupal 8 & Symfony2

Hopefully all projects can work together to make stuff better/faster/more secure.

And we can focus on making PHP better for everyone?


But...

But it is not finished yet.


Questions?


Symfonising with Drupal 8: Symfony2, Drupal 8, PHP-FIG and Why it Matters

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