Rapid Drupal Development with the Features Module

In this session, we will discuss using the Features Module to build out reusable site functionality by pulling together content types, cck, views, context and more. We will focus on how we can use features to package these entities together into reusable modules to make site building faster and cheaper.

Using features, anyone building Drupal sites from freelancer to mainstream Drupal agencies can shave hours of development time off the beginning of their site building.

We will talk about:

• What the Features Module does
• How to build features from views, cck, content types, context, and more
• How to set up a Feature Server to share your features
• Using Drush Make to create your own distribtions for rapid deployment
• Adding custom hooks to your feature
• Using exportables and installation profiles with features.

Anyone who wants to create reusable feature sets to be deployed quickly on other websites should attend this session.