Learning Drupal 8 : create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet / Nick Abbott, Richard Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Nick, author.

Jones, Richard (Technical director at Inviqa), author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drupal (Computer file).

Web site development.

Web sites--Authoring.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2016.

Biography/History:

Abbott Nick: Nick Abbott is the head of training at iKOS. Nick started his digital life in 1981 working on an ICL 2904 mainframe, a Commodore PET, and a Commodore VIC20. After the ritual stint in BASIC, he moved on to writing games in Z80 and 6502 assemblers, hardware interfacing, and many happy hours creating business solutions with the BBC Micro based around the Acorn View family. Old but not obsolete. He graduated with a first class degree in applied physics in the late 1980s, and he worked in IT and education right up until he joined iKOS in 2008.

Summary:

Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yetKey FeaturesBuild complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interfaceFollow a practical case study chapter-by-chapter to construct a complete website as you progressEnsure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8Book DescriptionDrupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.What you will learnSet up a local “stack” development environment and install your first Drupal 8 siteFind out what is available in Drupal 8 coreDefine content types and taxonomies—and find out when you should do soUse the powerful Views moduleGet hands-on with image and media handlingExtend Drupal using custom community modulesDevelop the look and feel of your website using Drupal themesManage site users and permissionsWho this book is forIf you want to learn to use Drupal 8 for the first time, or you are transitioning over from a previous version of Drupal, this is the book for you. No knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML is assumed or required

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; What is Drupal?; Dynamic web pages - a brief history; Enter the database; A worldwide community; The success of Drupal; Multiple systems integration; Technical debt; Developer knowledge; Modularity; There's a module for that; Some Drupal history; Language choice; Is Drupal a framework or platform?; Embracing other communities' frameworks; How an open source community works; Summary; Chapter 2: Installation; System requirements; PHP; Web server options

Database optionsBrowser options; Setting up a development environment; Free cloud hosting; Acquia Dev Desktop; Installing Drupal 8; Configuring your Drupal 8 site; Troubleshooting your installation; Memory settings; PHP timeouts; Trusted host patterns; Summary; Chapter 3: Basic Concepts; Modules; Core and contrib modules; Where the core modules live; Where your extension modules should live; An example community module; Evaluating new modules; Documentation; Module versions; Entities, nodes, and fields; Entities; Nodes; Node types; Fields; Adding new fields; Field types; Field settings

Field widgetsForm display; Managing the form display; Managing field display; Drupal 8 core entity types; Taxonomy; Fixed terms versus or tags; Blocks; Views; Users, roles, and permissions; Themes; Administration themes; Base themes and subthemes; Hooks; Summary; Chapter 4: Getting Started with the UI; The Drupal 8 user interface; Logging out; Logging in; Front page; Repositioning the tray; Responsiveness; Administration theme; Contextual links; Quick content creation; Listing content; Revisiting the home page; Structure; Block layout; Comment types; Contact forms; Personal contact form

Content typesCustomizing a content type; Customizing fields; Customizing content entry screens; Customizing the display; Display modes; View modes; Form modes; Menus; Taxonomy; Views; Configuration; Appearance; People; Reports; Extend; Summary; Chapter 5: Basic Content; Introducing your site-building scenario; Types of content; Pages; Articles; Clients; Services; Testimonials; FAQs; Contact information; SEO considerations; Basic pages; Creating a new page; Title; Body; Body field summary; Adding a page to the main navigation menu; Adding more pages; Articles; Creating a new article

Front page promotionAdjusting the settings for a content type; Disabling front page promotion; Adjusting comment settings; Disabling future comments; No retrospective action; Retrospective action; Removing all comments and the ability to comment; Summary; Chapter 6: Structure; Managing menus; Reorganizing menu items; Editing menu items; Managing taxonomy; Creating a new Taxonomy vocabulary; Re-ordering Taxonomy terms; Apply a taxonomy vocabulary to content types; Adjusting the order of fields when editing; Categorizing content; Viewing categorized content

Segregating article types using taxonomy

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 6, 2016).

ISBN:

9781782168768

1782168761

OCLC:

1446511098