Drupal 8 Theming With Tig [Paperback]

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 wl3+