Talking Drupal #484 - Drupal CMS

Topics

What is Drupal CMS

Are we ready for the release

Drupal 7

What can people expect

Will there be a launch button

If someone uses the one click install how will they know what
to do next

What new features are there

If someone tries the trial how do they get that site on a
host

When will Experience builder be out

Are any vendors going to provide Drupal CMS as a service

What is on the roadmap

How can people get involved

Resources

Starshot initiative

Guests

Matthew Grasmick - grasmash
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Scott Weston - scott-weston
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to have one or more fallbacks within
your Drupal tokens? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Token OR



Brief history

How old: created in May 2018 by Daniel Beeke
(danielbeeke) of the Netherlands

Versions available: 2.3.0



Maintainership

Actively maintained, current release appx 2 mo old

Security coverage

Test coverage

Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 3 of which are bugs
against the current branch



Usage stats:

2,369 sites



Module features and usage

After installing this module, your tokens can contain
pipe-separated values, including a quote-enclosed literal
string, and the token will return the first token or string
that is not empty.

This allows your tokens to have fallback values. For
example you could have a token grab an event’s start date, or
show “TBD” if the field is empty.

The project page doesn’t explicitly say that a single
token can have more than two token reference or string
values, but it seems implied. If true, that would mean you
could define a token that would grab from one field, look in
a different field if the first one is empty, and return a
string if neither field has a value.

Because Token OR uses pipe characters to delineate
between values, the module currently doesn’t support pipe
characters within string values. This is one of the open
issues, but there is a patch available.

Previous guest host Josh Mitchell mentioned that he had
never heard of this module until he noticed it is in the
codebase for Drupal CMS, so I thought it would be ideal to
talk about on this show, as an example of some lesser-known
best practices that you’ll get out of the box when you start
building sites on Drupal CMS.