Drupal Rector Documentation

Drupal Rector is an open source tool built using Rector which can help automate many common deprecations between different versions of Drupal starting with version 8.

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)