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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

Using Drupal Console to manage configuration


Drupal Console also allows us to perform a multitude of tasks using the command line to interact with Drupal. Managing configuration is just a small portion of its capabilities. Like Drush, we can use Drupal Console to list, get, and set configuration.

Listing configuration variables

If we open a Terminal window and navigate to our Drupal instance, we can enter the following command to see a list of variables:

drupal config:debug

Retrieving specific variables

We can also retrieve the value of a specific variable by calling drupal config:debug, followed by the specific configuration name.

If we open a Terminal window, we can enter the following command to see the values contained within a variable:

drupal config:debug system.site

The preceding command is illustrated in the following image:

Setting configuration variables

Setting configuration variables using Drupal Console is also possible using drupal config:edit, followed by specifying the configuration...