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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter we have gone over a lot of new ground. We started with the tools that you will want to use to create new modules and components, and then moved on to how to use those to add new capabilities to your Drupal site. This included:

  • Creating a new module
  • Understanding the plugin system and creating a new block
  • Working with the dependency injection container and creating a new service
  • Exploring the new menu system and creating custom menu routers, links, and local tasks
  • Learning about the new Event system and how to receive and dispatch events.

These tasks will form the basis of almost all custom development in Drupal. With these under your belt, you are ready to add new behaviors and customize every part of your Drupal site. In the next chapter, we will be going through the Form API. We will learn how to create custom forms to capture and store information.