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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

Configuration interface


Drupal 8 provides an interface to interact with the configuration. You can import, export, and synchronize through the administrative interface by navigating to Configuration and then Configuration synchronization from the menu bar.

Synchronize configuration

The first tab, labeled Synchronize, allows you to see the state of any configuration that has been exported to the filesystem and compare it to the configuration currently in the database. Each configuration item that contains a difference is listed, along with a button to show the differences.

Synchronize configuration screen

Clicking on the View differences button opens up a dialog that shows the differences between the configuration in the synchronization directory and what is in the database.

Differences dialog

Once you have verified each change, you can click the button labeled Import all to set the current database configuration to the files in the synchronization directory.

Exporting single configuration

If you...