Drupal is a very powerful open source content management system (over 1,000,000 websites run on Drupal). There have been eight versions of Drupal, and in my opinion, the latest is the greatest by far. Drupal 8 has been been redeveloped from the core to have more features, which means that far less coding is needed than before. This book is for anyone, especially those new to Drupal. It will guide you through making seven types of website without much custom code at all. The following is a quote from the official website of Drupal:
"What is Drupal? Drupal is the #1 platform for web content management among global enterprises, governments, higher education institutions, and NGOs. Flexible and highly scalable, Drupal publishes a single website or shares content in multiple languages across many devices. Technology and business leaders transform content management into powerful digital solutions with Drupal… backed by one of the world’s most innovative open source communities."
Chapter 1, Introduction and Getting Set Up, shows how to get started with development locally and how to get set up for Drupal.
Chapter 2, Telling Your Own Story with Drupal, describes how to create your very own blog.
Chapter 3, Get Fundraising with Drupal, is about creating a fundraising website that donations can be made to.
Chapter 4, Recruit Using Drupal, presents a way to show the jobs that are available and apply for jobs.
Chapter 5, List Properties with Drupal, explores how to create a website showing properties for sale.
Chapter 6, Express Your Event with Drupal, focuses on how to create a website for an event, and show sessions, tracks, and a schedule.
Chapter 7, Get Teaching with Drupal, covers the use of videos to teach.
Chapter 8, Go Static with Drupal, outlines how to use Drupal to work with a static frontend.
To get started with Drupal, you will require a local development environment, as we will cover in Chapter 1, Introduction and Getting Set Up.
In order to create code, you will need a text editor. The recommended ones are as follows:
- PHPStorm--https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download
- Sublime Text 3--https://www.sublimetext.com/3
- Netbeans--https://netbeans.org/features/index.html
The book is for people who have used or installed Drupal before, have some understanding of how websites work, and have some PHP knowledge.
It is a step-by-step guide on creating seven types of website, exploring how powerful Drupal 8 is without having to write too much custom code.
In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "To get panels, simply type composer require drupal/panels drupal/page_manager."
A block of code is set as follows:
name: Blueprint description: Bespoke theme for Drupal 8 Blueprints type: theme core: 8.x base theme: bootstrap # Regions
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
drush dl bootstrapNew terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Select System info from the Administration panel."
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