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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
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Preface

Adding language detection


Now that we have added languages, we need to have a process to identify which language a given request uses. From the Languages page, select the Detection and selection tab to configure these settings. There are a number of different options available to select. Starting from the detection method at the top, Drupal will attempt each enabled method until one returns a value.

Language detection settings

Account administration pages

If Account administration pages is selected, then each user will see an option to choose which language is used to display the administrative section. There is an option for No preference, which will move on to the next language detection method. This language will be used on any routes that have the attribute _admin_route.

User language settings

URL

If URL is selected, you are able to use either a path prefix or subdomain to be checked for the current language. The default configuration is to use a path prefix that corresponds to the code for...