Learning Drupal 8

Nick Abbott, Richard Jones

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Anno: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781782168751
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Informatique
• Categoria: Systèmes de gestion de contenu

Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet

About This Book

• Build complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interface
• Follow a practical case study chapter-by-chapter to construct a complete website as you progress
• Ensure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8

Who This Book Is For

If you want to learn to use Drupal 8 for the first time, or you are transitioning over from a previous version of Drupal, this is the book for you. No knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML is assumed or required

What You Will Learn

• Set up a local "stack" development environment and install your first Drupal 8 site
• Find out what is available in Drupal 8 core
• Define content types and taxonomies—and find out when you should do so
• Use the powerful Views module
• Get hands-on with image and media handling
• Extend Drupal using custom community modules
• Develop the look and feel of your website using Drupal themes
• Manage site users and permissions

In Detail

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs.

The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local "stack" development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.

Style and approach

This is an absolute beginners' guide, providing step-by-step instructions to help you learn Drupal 8 from scratch.

Learning Drupal 8

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Table of Contents

Learning Drupal 8

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

eBooks, discount offers, and more

Questions

1. Introduction

What is Drupal?

Dynamic web pages – a brief history

Enter the database

A worldwide community

The success of Drupal

Multiple systems integration

Technical debt

Developer knowledge

Modularity

There's a module for that

Some Drupal history

Language choice

Is Drupal a framework or platform?

Embracing other communities' frameworks

How an open source community works

Summary

2. Installation

System requirements

PHP

Web server options

Database options

Browser options

Setting up a development environment

Free cloud hosting

Acquia Dev Desktop

Installing Drupal 8

Configuring your Drupal 8 site

Troubleshooting your installation

Memory settings

PHP timeouts

Trusted host patterns

Summary

3. Basic Concepts

Modules

Core and contrib modules

Where the core modules live

Where your extension modules should live

An example community module

Evaluating new modules

Documentation

Module versions

Entities, nodes, and fields

Entities

Nodes

Node types

Fields

Adding new fields

Field types

General

Number

Reference

Text

Field settings

Field widgets

Form display

Managing the form display

Managing field display

Drupal 8 core entity types

Taxonomy

Fixed terms versus or tags

Blocks

Views

Users, roles, and permissions

Themes

Administration themes

Base themes and subthemes

Hooks

Summary

4. Getting Started with the UI

The Drupal 8 user interface

Logging out

Logging in

Front page

Repositioning the tray

Responsiveness

Administration theme

Contextual links

Quick content creation

Listing content

Revisiting the home page

Structure

Block layout

Comment types

Contact forms

Personal contact form

Content types

Customizing a content type

Customizing fields

Customizing content entry screens

Customizing the display

Display modes

View modes

Form modes

Menus

Taxonomy

Views

Configuration

Appearance

People

Reports

Extend

Summary

5. Basic Content

Introducing your site-building scenario

Types of content

Pages

Articles

Clients

Services

Testimonials

FAQs

Contact information

SEO considerations

Basic pages

Creating a new page

Title

Body

Body field summary

Rich text toolbar

Default HTML restrictions

Full HTML

Restricted HTML

Adding a page to the main navigation menu

Nodes and unique IDs

Adding more pages

Articles

Creating a new article

Front page promotion

Adjusting the settings for a content type

Disabling front page promotion

Adjusting comment settings

Disabling future comments

No retrospective action

Retrospective action

Threading

Show reply form on the same page as comments

Preview comments before posting

Removing all comments and the ability to comment

Summary

6. Structure

Managing menus

Reorganizing menu items

Editing menu items

Managing taxonomy

Creating a new Taxonomy vocabulary

Re-ordering Taxonomy terms

Apply a taxonomy vocabulary to content types

Adjusting the order of fields when editing

Categorizing content

Viewing categorized content

Segregating article types using taxonomy

Creating another taxonomy vocabulary

Working with the Views module

Creating a Views-powered News p...

Indice dei contenuti

• Learning Drupal 8