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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

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Mastering Drupal 8

4.2 (5)

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Developer Workflow

Developer Workflow

Deciding on a local AMP stack

The role of Composer

Speeding up tasks using Drush

A quick look at Drupal Console

Using Git to manage source code

Virtualizing an environment

Summary

Site Configuration

Site Configuration

Assumptions

Exploring Drupal's interface

Basic site settings

Configuration overrides

Using Drush to manage configuration

Using Drupal Console to manage configuration

Working with the File system

Summary

Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions

Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions

Assumptions

Exploring People

Managing roles and permissions

Working with users

Configuring Account settings

Using Drush to manage roles

Using Drush to manage users

Summary

Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types

Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types

Assumptions

Exploring Content types

Managing fields

Creating custom content types

Managing fields using the Field UI

Taxonomy, Vocabularies, and Terms

Working with Comment types

Working with form and content display

Using Drupal console to generate dummy content

Summary

Working with Blocks

Working with Blocks

Assumptions

Block layout and Regions

Block configuration, settings, and visibility

Creating a custom block

Exploring the Custom block library

Using the Place block interface

Deleting Blocks from Block layout

Summary

Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media

Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media

Assumptions

Responsive admin

CKEditor and text formats

Working with images

Managing displays

Using Better preview

Custom Display settings

Image styles

Quick edit

Summary

Understanding Views

Understanding Views

Customized lists of contents

Creating view pages and blocks

Working with filter criteria and sorting

Formatting rows

Using advanced features

Summary

Theming Essentials

Theming Essentials

Assumptions

What is a theme?

Exploring the Appearance interface

Drupal's core themes

Theme states

Installing and uninstalling themes

Theme settings

Theme-specific settings

Using prebuilt themes

Reviewing the new info.yml file

Regions

Adding assets to CKEditor

The role of templates in Drupal

Creating a simple theme

Summary

Working with Twig

Working with Twig

Assumptions

Configuring settings.local.php

Twig fundamentals

Filters

Control structures

Functions

Template variables

The role of the theme file in Drupal

Working with libraries

Creating our Jumbotron Block

Page template

Node template

Block template

Field templates

Summary

Extending Drupal

Extending Drupal

Using Drush

Working with dependency injection

Permissions

Routing and menus

Events and hooks

Summary

Working with Forms and the Form API

Working with Forms and the Form API

Creating and managing forms

Exploring the Form API

Summary

RESTful Services

RESTful Services

Overview of REST

Using RESTful endpoints

Authenticating an application as a Drupal user

Creating REST resources

Summary

Multilingual Capabilities

Multilingual Capabilities

Enabling core multilingual modules

Installing and configuring languages

Adding language detection

Working with language switching blocks

Translating content

Translating the Drupal admin UI

Using the multilingual API

Summary

Configuration Management

Configuration Management

Configuration Management files

Using the Config object

Configuration interface

Configuration workflow with Drush

Configuration and multilingual sites

Summary

Site Migration

Site Migration

Enabling core modules to migrate content

Using Drupal 8's Migrate to handle migrations

Extending migrations with contributed modules

Using Drush to manage migrations

Summary

Debugging and Profiling

Debugging and Profiling

Enabling core debugging

Working with Devel and Kint

Using the Web Profiler

Summary

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Virtualizing an environment

When we first began with this lesson, we mentioned the various ways to set up a local development environment. Depending on the size of your organization or team, having a repeatable and configured method for starting each Drupal project cuts down on having to manually install tools and dependencies. A VM also eliminates issues with something working locally, but not working on a remote server.

Using Drupal VM as a web starter

Depending on your skill level, it may make sense to create your own web starter by packaging and configuring Vagrant, VirtualBox, PHP, MySQL, and the list goes on. However, if some of those terms seem foreign to you, I would recommend the well-documented and easy-to-use Drupal VM (http://www.drupalvm.com):

Drupal VM is a virtual machine for local Drupal development, built with Vagrant and Ansible, that can be installed and run on Mac, Windows, or Linux. This package allows a consistent development experience with a robust set of tools already installed, including Composer, Drush, and Drupal Console.

Drupal VM was created and is maintained by Jeff Geerling. It is by far the best option for working with a Drupal-based web project and, while the steps involved to install it are clearly spelled out in the documentation, I would recommend starting with the Quick Start Guide available at https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm#quick-start-guide.

It is worth taking the time to learn how to work with a virtualized environment that can be configured and customized to work with any requirements your next Drupal project may have.

If at any point you experience any issues, the Drupal VM repository issue queue (https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/issues)--is available to post questions for assistance.

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