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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

Chapter 9. Working with Twig

Before we begin working with Twig, we will need to ensure that our local development environment is set up and configured to allow us to debug Twig. From there, we will have the basis for discovering which templates Drupal uses to output content, how to override Twig templates, and how to work with some of the most common Blocks, Menus, Regions, and Nodes.

Let's get started by exploring what we will be covering along the way:

  • We will begin with enabling Twig debugging
  • Then we will take a closer look at the Twig syntax that allows us to set variables, print variables, and inspect content
  • Next, we will look at Twig filters, control structures, and how to best use Twig to check for the existence of content
  • Finally, we will work with Template variables and build a simple page layout using HTML, Twig, and CSS