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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

Reviewing the About Us mockup


In order for us to identify page elements, we will be recreating them for the About Us page and need to take a closer look at our mockup. The About Us page can be found in the Mockup folder located in our exercise files. Begin by opening up the about-us.html file within the browser, as shown in the following image:

There are several page elements that we will need to recreate, and we can identify the following:

  1. First is the header, which we created previously on our homepage. We will need to add this region to our interior pages as well to ensure that our users can navigate from page to page and use the global search functionality.

  2. Second is the page title, which spans across the top of all our interior pages. This is a common element in Drupal that helps the user to identify which page they are currently on.

  3. Third is the main content region. Any nodes or custom blocks can output content in this region. We will need to make sure that we account for the content assigned...