Drupal 8 Theming with Twig : master Drupal 8's new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion / Chaz Chumley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chumley, Chaz, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drupal (Computer file).

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Drupal eight theming with Twig

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion About This Book Create beautiful responsive Drupal 8 websites using Twig Quickly master theme administration, custom block layouts, views, and the Twig template structure A step-by-step guide to the most common approaches in web design Who This Book Is For This book is intended for front-end developers, designers, and anyone who is generally interested in learning all the new features of Drupal 8 theming. Discover what has changed from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and immerse yourself in the new Twig PHP templating engine. Familiarity with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and the Drupal Admin interface would be helpful. Prior experience with setting up and configuring a standalone development environment is required as we will be working with PHP and MySQL. What You Will Learn Navigate the Drupal 8 Admin interface Build custom block layouts with reusable and fieldable blocks Create subthemes based on the Bartik and Classy base themes Construct a responsive theme with Twitter Bootstrap Work with the new Twig PHP templating engine Configure Drupal for Twig debugging Enable preprocessing of Twig variables Develop a theme from scratch following a step-by-step project outline In Detail Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsi...

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Setting Up Our Development Environment; Installing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack; Introducing MAMP; Downloading MAMP; Installing MAMP; A quick tour of MAMP PRO; General settings for MAMP PRO; Host settings; Installing Drupal 8; Downloading Drupal 8; Creating our document root; Creating our host entry; Creating a new database for Drupal; Using phpMyAdmin; Completing Drupal 8 installation; Choosing a language; Choosing a profile; Verifying requirements

Database configurationConfiguring the site; Site maintenance account; Regional settings; Update notifications; Reviewing the new admin interface; Exploring the admin menu; Previewing the interface; Exploring Drupal 8 folder structure; The core folder; The modules folder; The sites folder; The themes folder; Using the project files; Downloading and extracting the exercise files; Database backup; Export settings; Database restore; Using Google Chrome to inspect elements; Summary; Chapter 2: Theme Administration; What is a theme?; Exploring the Appearance interface; Drupal's core themes; Bartik

SevenStark; Classy; Theme states; Installed themes; Uninstalled themes; Default theme; Installing and uninstalling themes; Step one - installing a theme; Step two - uninstalling a theme; Theme settings; Toggling the display of page elements; Logo image settings; Shortcut icon settings; Theme-specific settings; Using prebuilt themes; Installing a new theme; Installing from a URL; Uploading a module or theme archive to install; Manually installing a theme; Cleaning up our themes folder; Managing content with blocks; Exploring the Block layout; Blocks and regions; Demonstrating block regions

Placing blocks into regionsConfiguring a block; Managing the title; Managing visibility settings; Content types restriction; Page restriction; Role restriction; Creating a custom block; Managing custom blocks; Exploring the custom block library; Exploring block types; Managing fields; Managing display; Summary; Chapter 3: Dissecting a Theme; Setting up a local development environment; Managing sites/default folder permissions; Configuring settings.local.php; Disabling CSS and JS aggregation; Disabling render and page cache; Disabling test modules and themes

Default themes versus custom themesFolder structure and naming conventions; Managing configuration in Drupal 8; Reviewing the new info.yml file; Metadata; Libraries; Defining a library; Attaching a library; Regions; The role of templates in Drupal; How templates work; Where to find templates; Creating our first basic theme; Step One - creating a new folder; Step two - create an info file; Step three - copy core templates; Step four - include a screenshot; Step five - installing our theme; Step six - Welcome to Twig; Introducing Twig; Enabling Twig debug; Twig fundamentals

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 30, 2016).

ISBN:

9781782168744

1782168745

OCLC:

946054923