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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

Using the Config object


The Config object is the primary interface to interact with the system configuration. You retrieve the Config object by calling the config() function like so:

$config = \Drupal::config('system.site'); 

This method returns a \Drupal\Core\Config\ImmutableConfig object that can only be used to read the configuration. If you need to modify the configuration, you can use the config.factory service, like so:

$config = \Drupal::service('config.factory')->getEditable('system.site'); 

To read attributes of the Config object, you can use the get() function, like:

$name = \Drupal::config('system.site')->get('name'); 

When retrieving nested configuration values, you can retrieve the full array of values using the get() function. For example, calling:

 $pages = \Drupal::config('system.site')->get('page'); 

Will return an array with each value from the mapping, like so:

[ 
  '403'   => 'url', 
  '404'   => 'url', 
  'front' => 'url', 
] 

If you want to retrieve a nested...