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Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen, Edward Crompton, Krishna Kanth, Rakesh James, Malabya Tewari, Kurt Madel
Book Image

Drupal 8 Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Neeraj Kumar, Tassos Koutlas, Samuel Keen, Edward Crompton, Krishna Kanth, Rakesh James, Malabya Tewari, Kurt Madel

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most popular platforms with which to develop websites. With more and more organizations looking to build engaging digital experience for their stakeholders, the Drupal Content Management System offers a mobile-first platform with native support for integrations, better performance, and scalability. The new version brings significant changes to its module development and theme creation techniques, improving performance and refining the development experience.</p> <p>This book will help you develop your own website using Drupal 8 in a step-by-step manner. You’ll start off by setting up your development environment, enabling you to begin writing custom code for a Drupal-powered website through PHPStorm. You will learn about configuration management and creating custom content types before exploring the HTML5 features included with Drupal 8.</p> <p>You will then get familiar with Drupal 8’s mobile-first features, explore the built-in WYSIWYG and in-line editing capabilities of Drupal 8, and enhance the overall authoring experience. Later, you will create and enhance a Media Entity Lightbox module, before taking an in-depth look at the Views module.</p> <p>We then cover some advanced search concepts and walk you through the installation and integration of the Java-based Apache Solr search engine. Finally, you will explore and configure the built-in support for REST and extend its support by installing the RESTful module. By the end of the book, you will have created a recipe sharing website while gaining a solid understanding of development best practices for Drupal 8.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating custom Recipe content type


In the previous chapter, we installed Drupal 8 on our system. Now we are going to create our custom recipe content type. Before that, we will discuss five new fields added in Drupal 8:

  • Date: The Date field is the Date module in Drupal 7. We can choose to record the Date and time or Date only as options.

  • Email: The Date module is simple but the Email field is even simpler. There are no settings at all for the Email field.

  • Link: The Link field allows both internal and external links, along with a link text option.

  • Telephone: The Telephone field is disabled by default in Drupal 8, so we need to enable the module to use it. It has no settings. It really is just a text field that adds <a href="tel: to turn the text into a telephone link.

  • Reference: The Reference module is the most powerful field. We can link to anything that's an entity, which means we can link to comments, content, blocks, files, terms, and users.

Now login to your Drupal 8 website. You should...