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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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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

Summary


Congratulations! We have completed the theming of our Search results page. We began with the default core search and worked our way through replacing core search with the more robust Search API. The ability to extend Drupal using contributed modules is one of the primary reasons that makes it such a widely used platform to develop websites.

Let's review what we covered in this lesson:

  • We started with our Search results page mockup and identified form elements and markup that would need to be modified in Drupal.

  • Using core Drupal search, you learned the important aspects of configuration and how to control keyword factors. Once search was configured, we used Twig templates to override the Search results templates to match our mockup with minimal changes.

  • Realizing that we needed to extend search to make it more flexible for our needs, we explored using the Search API module. Being able to create a search server, search index, and use Views to build our Search results page provided us...