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Drupal 8 Blueprints
Drupal 8 Blueprints

Drupal 8 Blueprints: Step along the creation of 7 professional-grade Drupal sites

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Drupal 8 Blueprints

Telling Your Own Story with Drupal

Latest news is an important part of any website for many businesses. They allow the business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to engage with their customers and keep their employees updated. In this chapter, we will create a simple news website using Drupal 8 core functionality. This can also be used as a blog; we're just making it sound exciting and relatable.

This chapter will be a little more in depth in showing how the basic functionality of Drupal works; this will allow quicker development later throughout the book.

We will explore the following topics in the chapter:

  • Creating a new content type
  • Creating taxonomy terms and associating them to news posts
  • Using custom views to display the listing and individual news pages
  • Enabling a comment field to allow user comments
  • Referencing...

Creating the Post content type

In Drupal, we use the terminology of entity, and we have bundles inside an entity. As part of the Drupal core functionality, we have content types, which is in fact an entity type and therefore the Post content type is a bundle.

So, now that we are familiar with some basic Drupal terminology, let's move on to creating our Post content type.

If you use the menu at the top and click on Manage | Structure | Content Types, you will be taken to the Admin page for Content types:

Fig 1.1: The content type management page

By default, we have two content types in a standard Drupal installation (Basic page and Article). Article is pretty much a Post content type; however, for this, we shall ignore this and create our own content type entirely from scratch.

To create a new content type, click on + Add content type...

Summary

In this chapter we have started to uncover the power of Drupal core.

We have done the following:

  • Created and understood what a content type is
  • Understood how fields and display modes work
  • Created different types of fields
  • Set permissions for fields
  • Looked at the block plugin and how we can control them
  • Explored how views works and why we use it
  • Added a library to our theme

In the next chapter we will look at how to make a fundraising website, in this chapter we will start to look at a the user system and some custom module development.

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Key benefits

  • Create and design your own customized website effortlessly and efficiently
  • This up-to-date guide on Drupal 8 will show you how you can leverage the latest Drupal 8 features
  • This hands-on guide will turn you into a professional grade Drupal 8 developer through 7 unique and engaging web sites

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is ideal for web developers who are looking to create professional web applications using Drupal 8. You should have some previous experience with Drupal and must have a basic knowledge of web application development in general. If you are looking to create fluent professional websites that will take you to the next level, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Find out how to use the Drupal 8 core functionality to build great websites
  • Discover how to better manage content using custom blocks and views
  • Display content in multiple ways, taking advantage of display modes
  • Using the new TWIG theme engine for Drupal
  • Easily manage and filter content
  • Understanding best practices for building great Drupal sites
  • Move beyond Drupal to build headless websites using RESTful services and JavaScript frameworks

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
Introduction and Getting Set Up Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Telling Your Own Story with Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Get Fundraising with Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Recruit Using Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
List Properties with Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Express Your Event with Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Get Teaching with Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Go Static with Drupal Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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pngwen Aug 15, 2018
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This book starts strong, but rapidly falls apart. Code examples are incorrect in places, and as the narrative continues they become incomplete. For instance, around page 89 we get the following:"The next part of a form is the submit handler; we do this by adding a submitForm() method. This takes arguments that we can use inside this method. If we want to display a value from the submitted form, then we will use $form_state. What we will do now is just display a message saying Donation added..."The arguments to the submitForm method are never revealed to the reader, nor is there any explanation of how to display this message. This means that in order to complete the code, the reader has to paw over massive amounts of API documentation, which completely negates the value of the tutorial to begin with.The only reason I gave this book 2 stars is that in some places, it does provide useful information. It would be handy if you were a well seasoned drupal 8 developer who was a few months out of practiced. If you are trying to learn drupal 8, then this is not the book for you.
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The book claims it is meant for people with "some" PHP and drupal knowledge. Definitely anyone will struggle to cope with the examples if they follow the instructions given in the book as is. Lacks comprehensiveness, misleading and not dealt with all important features introduced in drupal 8. Poorly edited, sentence form errors etc.
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