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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 users


When we work with users in Drupal, we are generally referring to creating a user for the sake of performing some function within our website or managing an existing user. Managing a user can consist of assigning them a role, managing their access, or deleting them altogether.

Adding a user

We can navigate to the People panel by directly entering /admin/people or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Manage | People.

The People listing not only displays the existing users, but allows us to easily add new users by clicking on the Add user button.

The Add user page allows us to register new users by completing a series of fields. Some fields are required by Drupal to authenticate the user, whereas others are required to notify the user that their account has been created or to allow them to retrieve their password.

The first part of creating a user involves entering their credentials; credentials include Email address, Username, and Password:

For the purpose of demonstration...