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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Enabling core multilingual modules


Unlike previous versions of Drupal, everything that you need to start translating your website is available in four modules in core.

Multilingual modules

Language

The Language module provides the base functionality used by all of the other multilingual modules. Language allows site administrators to select the languages available on the site and configure how the language is selected and applied to the content. This includes:

  • Selecting the languages available on the site
  • Selecting a default language for users and other content
  • Selecting how language is detected for a request
  • Selecting a user interface language for a user

Interface Translation

The Interface Translation module allows site administrators to translate the interface of the Drupal site. This includes:

  • Translating messages, labels, and administrative menu items
  • Importing translation sets
  • Exporting translation sets

Content Translation

The Content Translation module allows users to translate individual entities...