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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

Implementing our main page structure


Our main page structure can be considered anything below the global header and page title and anything above the global footer. In our case, the main page structure for our About Us page consists of three regions—Before Content, Content, and After Content. Currently, we are already printing the main content region, but we have yet to add our structural layout or the other two regions.

Begin by opening page.html.twig, located in our themes/octo folder, and replace the following markup section with the new markup.

Current markup

<main role="main" class="main">
  {{ page.title_bar }}
</main>

{{ page.content }}

New markup

<main role="main" class="main">
  {{ page.title_bar }}
  {{ page.before_content }}
  <div id="content" class="content full">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-12">
          {{ page.content }}
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
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