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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

Implementing our Header region


The second item we will need to address is replacing the static content in our Header region. Referring back to the mockup, we have a logo, menu, and search form, each with their respective functionality. Tackling this next section will require quite a few more steps:

  • First, we will address the logo that has been moved into the brand new site branding block. We will upload a new logo, assign the block to our header region, and work with block templates.

  • Next, we will use Twig to print our Header region within our homepage to view any blocks assigned to it.

  • Then, we will work with the search form block and create both the block template and the input template while introducing some new Twig techniques to work with variables. We will also add our first custom JavaScript to enable the toggle functionality.

  • We will also take a look at our main menu and work with menu templates to modify the markup to match our design.

  • Finally, we will add our custom script to make our...