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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
Book Image

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

Looking at default Search results


The easiest way for us to take a look at what Drupal will return is by navigating to the homepage of our site and clicking on the search icon in the main menu.

We can now enter the keyword or term of lorem, as shown in the following image:

Once we have entered a keyword, we can hit Enter on our keyboard, which will take us to the Search results page located at /search/node?keys=lorem. We now have our first glance at the markup that Drupal displays by default.

Comparing the results to our Mockup, we can visually see that each individual result is displaying as an ordered list. Within each result, there is also additional information such as comments, which we will need to suppress. Search provides us with a couple of Twig templates we can use to clean up our markup. But before we move on to theming, it would help to have a better understanding of the options we have within core search and how to configure it for our needs.