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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By : Alex Burrows
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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By: Alex Burrows

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction and Getting Set Up
3
Get Fundraising with Drupal
5
List Properties with Drupal
6
Express Your Event with Drupal
7
Get Teaching with Drupal

What will we learn?


We will learn how to allow certain roles to create content from what we have learned previously, and then move on to cover how to allow these users to edit their own content, showing a dashboard of all their fundraising content. We will also cover allowing authenticated users to submit a donation; we won't integrate a payment gateway for this as there are so many we can pick from.

The donation will then appear on the fundraising page and an email notification will be sent out to the pledger. After this, we will explore how to make our module work with twig templates.

Getting started

We need to duplicate the site that we previously made and change the settings and configuration in our local environment.

Once this is done, we can do drush si standard -y; this will give us a clean installation of Drupal. Once we have done this, we need to enable our custom theme, as earlier.

Creating our fundraising pages

Our fundraising page will be split into two parts: the first part will be...