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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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Media


Next we will look at the different settings available for media management in Drupal 8.

Go to the Configuration page where you will see a number of entries under the heading MEDIA.

File system

Starting from the top, click on the File system option.

Later we will find that other modules give us more options in this screen, but for now, let's have a look at what this setting screen tells us.

The public file system path is the location on the web server where any files uploaded to Drupal via the user interface will be placed.

The public file system folder can be found inside the sites/default/files folder in your Local Drupal codebase.

You can locate the Drupal codebase on your computer now using Dev Desktop; click on the Local code link on the control panel:

Then navigate down to public files folder at sites/default/files.

The Temporary directory is used when files are uploaded for temporary storage. The value of this depends on the operating system your computer or server is running.

It is important...