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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By : Alex Burrows
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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By: Alex Burrows

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction and Getting Set Up
3
Get Fundraising with Drupal
5
List Properties with Drupal
6
Express Your Event with Drupal
7
Get Teaching with Drupal

Chapter 6. Express Your Event with Drupal

This is becoming more and more a request from clients to have an event website, where you can manage and run your event all using a website.

This chapter is largely based off the Cream distribution (https://drupal.org/project/cream) and a simpler approach to how it was built. Cream is one of the distributions I maintain. In fact, it runs off the second biggest Drupalcamp in the world. As it stated at the beginning, I'm one of the organisers of Drupalcamp London and have been so since 2013.

What we found was important in an event is the following:

  • Session submissions
  • Session feedback (using Disqus)
  • Session management
  • Schedules
  • Sponsor signup and management
  • Social media integration (twitter, facebook)
  • Location of the venue
  • Selling tickets (we'll use Drupal Commerce for this)