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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.

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Learning Drupal 8
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction
Introduction
What is Drupal?
Some Drupal history
Summary
2
Installation
Installation
System requirements
Setting up a development environment
Free cloud hosting
Installing Drupal 8
Troubleshooting your installation
Trusted host patterns
Summary
3
Basic Concepts
Basic Concepts
Modules
Entities, nodes, and fields
Taxonomy
Blocks
Views
Users, roles, and permissions
Themes
Hooks
Summary
4
Getting Started with the UI
Getting Started with the UI
The Drupal 8 user interface
Responsiveness
Quick content creation
Listing content
Structure
Configuration
Appearance
People
Reports
Extend
Summary
5
Basic Content
Basic Content
Introducing your site-building scenario
Basic pages
Articles
Summary
6
Structure
Structure
Managing menus
Managing taxonomy
Working with the Views module
Working with Views blocks
Summary
7
Advanced Content
Advanced Content
Field types
Extending content types
Creating new content types
Listing testimonials with a view
Summary
8
Configuration
Configuration
People – Account settings
System
Content authoring
User interface
Development
Configuration synchronization
Media
Search and metadata
Regional and language
Web services
Summary
9
Users and Access Control
Users and Access Control
Users and roles
Permissions
Summary
10
Optional Features
Optional Features
Activity Tracker
Aggregator
Ban
Book
Forum
Responsive image
Statistics
Syslog
Core (experimental), Multilingual, and Web services
Summary
11
Reports
Reports
Accessing reports
Available updates
Recent log messages
Field list
Status report
Top 'access denied' errors
Top 'page not found' errors
Top search phrases
Views plugins
Summary
12
Extending Drupal
Extending Drupal
Installing a module
Improving FAQs
Pathauto and Token
Summary
13
Theming Drupal
Theming Drupal
What is a theme?
Terminology
Themes included in Drupal 8
Setting the active theme
Common settings
Theme regions
Color scheme
Setting the admin theme
Advanced themes from the Drupal community
Custom themes
Summary
14
Getting Support
Getting Support
What is open source?
The Drupal community
Drupal.org
Issue queues
The Drupal security team
api.drupal.org
IRC chat
The Drupal Association
DrupalCon
DrupalCamps
Specialist Drupal companies
Training
Certification
Summary
Index
Index

Syslog

The standard Drupal 8 installation enables a module called Database logging.

The Database logging module records log entries that are created by different modules and can be viewed at Reports | Recent log entries (admin/reports/dblog).

However, this means that data is written to the database, so often the database logging module is turned off in production websites for performance reasons.

The Syslog module is an alternative logging module, which logs the same data to the system log of the operating system Drupal is running in.

This is considered to be a faster operation than a database write and therefore is preferable for production sites.

You can alter the settings of the Syslog module by navigating to Configuration | Development | Logging and errors (admin/config/development/logging).

When this module is activated, Drupal's log messages will appear in the main system log on your server. You can specify log labels and patterns to help you filter Drupal messages from other content in...

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