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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 7. Theming Our Interior Page

One of the great features of Drupal 8 is the new Twig templating engine. Simply by using the recommended file name suggestions, we saw how easy it was to theme our homepage by creating a page--front.html.twig template. However, we are not able to use this same template for our interior pages as Drupal only renders our homepage template on the front page of our website.

Instead, we will need to create a new Twig template that all of our interior pages can use when a user is navigating our website. By default, Drupal outputs content using the page.html.twig template. In this chapter, we will look at using the page.html.twig template, along with discussing strategies to address the following:

  • We will begin with reviewing the About Us page mockup and identify any additional components that may require custom blocks, new regions, and Twig templates.

  • Then, we will take a look at reusing regions such as our header and footer as they are considered global components...