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title: Having Fun with Drupal 8, PHP libraries and the Drupal.org API
description: A crash course in developing PHP packages and Drupal 8 modules, based on the Drupal.org API.
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tags:
    - drupal
    - drupal-8
    - drupalorg
    - php
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    id: JyDjC7gGDpU
events:
    - event: drupal_bristol
      date: 2018-04-18
      joindin: https://joind.in/talk/14851
    - event: drupalcamp_london_19
      date: 2019-03-03
      time: '12:05 - 12:50'
---
A overview and demo of some of the open source projects that I’ve been working on lately that are based on information from the Drupal.org API, including a PHP library for the API itself as well as some Drupal 8 modules that use it.

This session will cover various topics including:

- Why would you want to separate your code into reusable packages
- An overview of how to structure a PHP package (e.g. an API for interacting with Drupal.org)
- How to add a PHP package as a dependency for a Drupal module using Composer
- How to create routes and services, and use dependency injection in Drupal 8
- How to use Drupal to configure the packages
- How to increase performance and reliability by using Drupal's cache system to store API results

## Links

- [Drupal.org API library][2]
- [Drupal.org API documentation][3]
- [Laravel Collections][4]
- Example module: [Drupal.org project statistics][5]
- Example module: [Drupalversary][6]
- Talk: [Using Laravel Collections outside Laravel][7]

[0]: https://www.drupalbristol.org.uk
[2]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupalorg-api-php
[3]: https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/api
[4]: https://laravel.com/docs/collections
[5]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-module-drupalorg-project-statistics
[6]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-module-drupalversary
[7]: /talks/using-laravel-collections-outside-laravel/