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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

Working with comments


Drupal 8 introduced comments as a fieldable entity that can now be referenced by any other entity using the new comment field. So what exactly does that mean? This means you no longer manage comments as a configuration option from a content type. The benefit of moving comments into a fieldable entity is that it provides a wide range of flexibility. We can add additional fields if needed along with additional display modes to output comments.

In the case of our Post content type, we already created a relationship to comments to expedite our theming, but we should take a moment to review how that was done and then move on to printing comments in our Blog detail page.

Introducing Comment types

Comment types can be located by navigating to /admin/structure/comment and, as we can see by the interface in the following image, Comment types look very similar to Content types:

For our website, we are using the Default comments that Drupal creates as part of the default installation...