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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reviewing the contact page mockup


Like previous sections of our website, having a mockup to review makes planning how to develop a page much easier. Page structure, blocks, web forms, and other functionality we will need to consider can easily be discovered by looking at the contact page in the Mockup folder located in our exercise files. Begin by opening up the contact.html file within the browser.

The contact page mockup has some fairly standard components that most websites seem to use today. Starting at the top of our layout and working our way down, we can identify three different sections that we will need to develop and theme for our Drupal site.

  1. First, we have a Google map displaying the current address using a map marker. We will revisit building this section of the site after we have created our contact form.

  2. Second, we have a simple block of information or callout telling users how they can get in touch with us.

  3. The last section is the web form itself and is by far the most important...