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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

Implementing our Team members section


The next area of our About Us page we will need to create is the display of our Team members listing. We will be taking an existing Drupal content type named Team and using Views to display the four team members.

In order for us to implement the Team members section, we will need to complete a series of steps as follows:

  1. First, we will review the structural markup for our team members section in preparation for creating a new Drupal View.

  2. Next, we will look at various methods to theme View content as we complete our Team Members display.

  3. Finally, we will assign our custom View block to a new region and limit the page visibility to our About Us page.

Prepping our Team Member View

The Views module provides multiple ways of creating block displays, whether we are simply outputting the fields of a content type as an unordered list or relying on rendering a specific content type directly. In any case, it is best to start off by breaking down how the Team Members...