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Mastering Drupal 8

Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

Mastering Drupal 8

4.2 (5)
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.
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Reviewing the new info.yml file


The *.info.yml file is required to create any theme. It helps us to notify Drupal that a theme exists and provides information to the Appearance interface that a theme is available to be installed. We will be working with *.info.yml files when creating any theme, so let's look at the makeup of a basic example.info.yml file:

name: Example 
description: 'An Example theme.' 
type: theme 
package: Custom 
base theme: classy 
core: 8.x 
 
libraries: 
  - example/global-styling 
 
regions: 
  header: Header 
  primary_menu: 'Primary menu' 
  secondary_menu: 'Secondary menu' 
  breadcrumb: Breadcrumb 
  help: Help 
  highlighted: Highlighted 
  content: Content 
  sidebar_first: 'Left sidebar' 
  sidebar_second: 'Right sidebar' 
  footer: Footer 
  page_top: 'Page top' 
  page_bottom: 'Page bottom' 

At first glance, the example.info.yml file is logical in structure and syntax. Starting from the top and moving our way down, the file is broken down by different sections...

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