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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have used our previous knowledge to build an event website using mostly Drupal 8.x core but also a few contrib modules (far fewer than the previous Drupal core versions) and one custom module.

We have looked at limiting field access to specific user roles. This will then give us greater control on who can do what, but also, it allows us to have all the fields we require in our entity types and not need to create a load of rules for them. This also means no need to use hook_form_alter(), which is easier for website builders.

Next, we moved onto user registration, again using our previous knowledge but also adding rules to what happens when a certain user logs in.

We added a custom rule in the code to our node creation form for our session submission so that our user can be added as a Speaker role.

You will have noticed how powerful Drupal 8.x core is, and how little our modifications have been. This allows us to build powerful websites and indeed systems very easily...