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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

System requirements


Drupal 8 is a PHP-based software application and as such requires the following:

PHP

The following PHP version is required for the installation of Drupal 8:

  • PHP 5.5.9 or higher

Web server options

One of the following:

  • Apache

  • Nginx

  • Microsoft IIS

Database options

One of the following:

  • MySQL 5.5.3 or above with PDO

  • PostgreSQL 3.6.8 or above with PDO

  • SQLite 3.6.8 or above

  • MariaDB 5.5.20 (or greater)

  • Percona Server 5.2.8 (or greater)

Browser options

One of the following:

  • Internet Explorer 9.x and above

  • Firefox 5.x and above

  • Opera 12 and above

  • Safari 5.x and above

  • Google Chrome

Up-to-date system requirements can be found at https://drupal.org/requirements.