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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

Working with the File system


The next section of configuration we will look at is the File system. By default, Drupal creates a /sites/default/files folder as part of the installation process. It is this directory that Drupal will use to store the files that are uploaded as part of the content.

We can take a better look at this configuration by navigating to /admin/config/media/file-system, or using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Manage | Configuration | File system:

The File system interface is used to manage how files are stored, where they are stored, and how orphaned files should be managed. One new setting is the ability to specify an interval of time that lets Drupal know when files no longer being used can be deleted. This is known as the garbage collector and is a method of keeping your files folder from growing too large.

Unlike in the earlier version of Drupal, we can no longer change the public or private system paths from within the admin interface. We will need to use the settings...