---
title: "The Mysterious Drupal Entity"
url: "/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/the-mysterious-drupal-entity"
type: episode
date: 2013-05-17
updated: 2014-02-06
---

# The Mysterious Drupal Entity

#  The Mysterious Drupal Entity 

  

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Join [Kyle Hofmeyer](https://www.lullabot.com/who-we-are/kyle-hofmeyer), [Joe Shindelar](https://www.lullabot.com/who-we-are/joe-shindelar), [Blake Hall](https://www.lullabot.com/who-we-are/blake-hall), and [Greg Dunlap](https://www.lullabot.com/who-we-are/greg-dunlap) to talk about the somewhat mysterious concept of entities, which was introduced to Drupal in Drupal 7. We explain what entities are, why we have them, and what the future may hold for them in Drupal 8.

##  Mentioned in this Episode 

- [  Lullabot DrupalCon Party!   ](http://www.lullabot.com/blog/news/announcing-our-5th-annual-drupalcon-party)
- [  Working with Entities in Drupal 7 video series   ](http://drupalize.me/series/working-entities-drupal-7)
- [  Drupal 8 Entity API improvements issue   ](http://drupal.org/node/1346204)
- [  Entity API module   ](http://drupal.org/project/entity)
- [  Core Entity documentation   ](http://drupal.org/node/1260694)
- [  Contrib Entity API module documentation   ](http://drupal.org/node/878784)
- [  Examples project   ](http://drupal.org/project/examples)
- [  Membership Entity module (sandbox)   ](https://drupal.org/sandbox/draenen/1875930)
- [  DrupalCon Portland Sprints   ](http://portland2013.drupal.org/program/sprints)
- [  DrupalCon Session: Status of the New Entity API and Typed Data   ](http://portland2013.drupal.org/node/3838)
- [  DrupalCon Session: The Old and New Field API in Drupal 8   ](http://portland2013.drupal.org/node/378)
- [  DrupalCon Session: Rest and Serialization in Drupal 8   ](http://portland2013.drupal.org/node/1838)

 Published in:

- [  Drupal Development   ](/topics/drupal-development)