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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 Drush to manage users


Another great way to speed up our development in Drupal is to use Drush to manage users.

If we open a terminal window and navigate to our Drupal project, we can enter the following command to retrieve a list of commands:

drush

If we scan down the list, we can locate all the User commands:

We will take a deeper look at utilizing Drush to quickly perform the following tasks:

  • Displaying user information
  • Adding and removing roles from a user
  • Blocking and unblocking a user
  • Creating and deleting user accounts
  • Creating a one-time login

Displaying user information

Using Drush to retrieve user information is simple. If we know the user ID associated with the user, we can use the drush user-information command to return information about that user. We can locate the user ID by navigating to the People panel in Drupal and hovering over the username. In our example, the developer user has an ID of 2.

We can open a terminal window and enter the following command to retrieve our developer...