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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

Summary


While our Contact Us page may have seemed at first to be a little more complex, it actually turned out to be quite simple as we were able to harness the power of Drupal 8's core functionality when it comes to both blocks and the new contact forms. In review, we covered the following:

  • We began by reviewing the Contact Us page mockup to identify specific components and functionality that we would need to build.

  • Next, we took a look at how Drupal implements contact forms for general website feedback and how to configure the fields and display of forms for use on our Contact Us page.

  • Then, we used the Block layout admin to create two blocks for use on our Contact Us page—one to implement a callout and the second to render a Google map.

  • Finally, we used libraries, scripts, and Twig to attach our jquery-gmap functionality to our Contact Map block.

In the next chapter, we will move on to Drupal's core search functionality as we tie back in our search block. We will also work with global search...