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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
Book Image

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Theming Our Contact Page

Almost every website provides a mechanism for users to contact the individual, business, or association that owns the site, whether that be in the form of a simple e-mail link or something more advanced using a web form. Often, a contact page is part of the main menu hierarchy, as is evident in our mockup.

In this chapter, we will take a look at creating a contact page that uses the new contact forms that are part of Drupal 8 core. We will not be using any contributed modules, as core provides us with the configuration and templates needed to create most forms. We will also not be covering the extensive Form API, as it is beyond the scope of this book.

However, we will be learning the following theming techniques that will allow us to create a well-structured contact page:

  • We will begin with reviewing the mockup of our contact page and identify how specific blocks or fields will need to be presented for display.

  • Next, we will take a closer look at contact...