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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

Users, roles, and permissions


In order to log in to your Drupal 8 site, you will need a user account.

A site maintenance account was created automatically when you installed Drupal, and the user can perform all actions on this site. You may hear this user referred to as user 1, which is a reference to the user ID in the database.

A user is another form of entity, and like all other entity types, this means that you can add fields to the user definition in order to include more information in the user account such as forename, surname, and telephone number.

Each user is assigned one or more roles, and roles have permissions attached to determine exactly what the user is permitted to do when logged into the site. Standard roles are:

  • Anonymous user: Assigned to anyone not logged into the site—visitors

  • Authenticated user: This is assigned to anyone logged in to the site

  • Administrator: This is for site owners, site maintainers, and site builders

You can, and most likely will, create additional roles...