Drupal Rector Documentation

Drupal Rector is an open source tool built using Rector which can help automate many common deprecations between Drupal 8 and Drupal 9.

For more information, see https://github.com/palantirnet/drupal-rector.

Development guides

• Adding Drupal Rector to a site
• Creating a Drupal Rector rule

Individual deprecation overviews

• Updating deprecated file_prepare_directory() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated FILE_EXISTS_REPLACE calls in Drupal 8
• Unicode::strtolower() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated format_date() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated \Drupal::url() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated db_insert(), db_query(), db_select() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated entityManager() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated drupal_set_message() calls in Drupal 8
• Updating deprecated test classes extending WebTestBase in Drupal 8

Other Resources

• Getting Started with Drupal Rector Development (Nerdstein)
• Jump-Start Your Drupal 9 Code Updates with Drupal Check and Drupal Rector (Drupalize.Me)