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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

Contact page layout


So far, we have been working with mainly content types and blocks. Content created using any of our content types generates a Node and a Twig template with it. However, contact forms generate a page for us that is not quite like what we are used to working with. The only way for us to add additional content such as our Callout block or Google map is by using blocks. This requires us to rethink the layout of the Contact page a little.

We can begin by inspecting the markup to see what Twig templates Drupal is providing us.

It appears that the Contact Us form is output as a form element and is assigned to our Main content region. This means that we can add additional content both above and below the form using the Before Content and After Content regions. In fact, this is a perfect example of why creating regions in our design that can appear above or below the main content flow provides flexibility.