Slides from presentation at DrupalCamp Montreal. This presentation describes the process of spinning up a pre-configured Drupal site, whether you want to write a script, create an install profile, or turn it into a distribution. The use case we'll walk though is a multilingual Drupal site, and I'll use this GitHub project as an example: https://github.com/pixelite/drupal-multilingual-starterkit. Topics covered will include: Writing a simple drush script Setting up a Drupal 7 multilingual website (with zero pointing and clicking) Planning out an install profile Creating Drush make files to streamline contrib downloads

1. CREATING A MULTILINGUAL
INSTALL PROFILE

2. Drupal Consulting, Development, andTraining
evolvingweb.ca
Suzanne Dergacheva, Co-founder
@suzanne_kennedy

3. TRAINING PROGRAM
evolvingweb.ca/training
!

4. MAKING A MULTILINGUAL
WEBSITE - CHECKLIST

5. MULTILINGUAL CHECKLIST
• Enable some modules
• Add languages
• Set up language negotiation
• Pull in languages from localize.drupal.org
• Turn on the language switcher

6. MULTILINGUAL CHECKLIST
• Enable field-level translation for content types
• Add variable translations
• Enable translation for the main menu
• Set the language of menu items
• Setup pathauto patterns for each language

7. Configuration > Regional & language > Languages
Installing Languages

8. Language Detection &
Selection
Using the URL as the primary method of language detection

9. Localization Update
drupal.org/project/l10n_update

10. Switching Languages

11. Setting up FieldTranslation

12. TranslatingVariables

13. Translating Menus

14. Pathauto Patterns
Create a pathauto pattern per language

15. HOWTO SCRIPTTHIS?
• Create a post-install script - using drush
commands and php scripts
• Create an install profile
• Create an install profile, with make files

16. WHAT’S INTHE SCRIPT?
drush en admin_menu admin_menu_toolbar locale
l10n_update entity_translation -y
drush variable-realm-set language en site_name
"Multilingual Drupal”
drush scr create-menu-items.script
drush vset language_content_type_article 4
drush l10n-update

17. INSTALL PROFILE

18. RUNNINGTHE INSTALL
PROFILE

19. RUNNINGTHE INSTALL
PROFILE

20. DEMO!

21. .INFO FILE
name = Multilingual Startkerkit
description = Profile for setting up a multilingual website.
core = 7.x
version = 0.1
!
;Core Dependencies
dependencies[] = block
dependencies[] = color
dependencies[] = comment

22. .INSTALL FILE
• hook_install
• add text formats
• enable blocks
• add node types
• set variables
• create fields and field instances

23. .PROFILE FILE
• hook_install_tasks
• array of steps for the installer
• each step corresponds to a callback function (could be
a form)
• hook_install_tasks_alter
• you can unset steps in the default process

24. INSTALLATION STEPS
• Select languages
• ImportTranslations
• Add Sample Content
• Setup Site Info

25. ADDING .MAKE FILES

26. .MAKE
api = 2
core = 7.x
; Include the definition for how to build Drupal core directly
includes[] = drupal-org-core.make
!
;Multilingual Starterkit Install Profile
projects[multilingual_starterkit][download][type] = "git"
projects[multilingual_starterkit][download][url] = "https://github.com/
pixelite/drupal-multilingual-starterkit"
projects[multilingual_starterkit][download][branch] = "master"
projects[multilingual_starterkit][type] = "profile"

27. DRUPAL-ORG-CORE.MAKE
core = 7.x
api = 2
!
projects[drupal][version] = "7.31"
!
projects[views_bulk_operations][version] = "3.2"
projects[views_bulk_operations][subdir] = "contrib"
!
projects[admin_menu][version] = "3.0-rc4"
projects[admin_menu][subdir] = "contrib"
!
projects[admin_views][version] = "1.3"

28. USINGTHE MAKE FILES
Download the make files:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixelite/drupal-
multilingual-starterkit/master/build-mulitilingual-
starterkit.make -o build-multilingual-starterkit.make
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixelite/drupal-
multilingual-starterkit/master/drupal-org-core.make -o
drupal-org-core.make
Run the make files using Drush:
drush make build-multilingual-starterkit.make

29. Drupal Consulting, Development, andTraining
evolvingweb.ca
Suzanne Dergacheva, Co-founder
@suzanne_kennedy

30. TRAINING PROGRAM
evolvingweb.ca/training
!