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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Drupal is a powerful content management platform, ?exible enough to accommodate almost any content requirements. This ?exibility comes with a cost: complexity. Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide will clear your path from installation to a building usable site in minutes, and to a customized site in one sitting.
You will begin with installation of Drupal and going through the main sections of the Drupal UI. Then, you will create a content type that describes its content, which simplifies the act of creating and editing the actual content later. You will learn about user roles, using real-world examples. This will help you to learn how to design roles, and how to assign appropriate permissions to them. Next, you will learn to use the WYSIWYG editor, configure it for other roles, navigate the various fields on the content creation form, and publish content.
To begin to appreciate the ?exibility and expandability of Drupal, you will make use of popular content-focused modules that extend Drupal's power. You will learn how to expand your market to other readers directly and through other sites by configuring content and UI translations and creating a View that provides an RSS feed. Finally, you will put everything together by customizing the home page for your new website.
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Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide
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Contributors
About the author
J. Ayen Green is a software architect, developer, author, poet, and rascal. He is the author of titles including Drupal 7 Views Cookbook, Drupal 6 Content Administration, and Drupal 6 Attachment Views. Green enjoys nature, critters, photography, the arts, experiencing other cultures, riding horses, and discovering new ales. He and his wife, Sofia-Aileen, make their home in Atlanta when they're not traveling. Track him down @accidentalcoder or theaccidentalcoder (dot) com.
About the reviewers
Matt Glaman is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013, and doing web development for many years prior to that. Since then, he has contributed to over 60 community projects and has had 9 core commit mentions. While mostly focusing on Drupal and PHP development, Matt has created the ContribKanban.com AngularJS application to provide Kanban boards for the Drupal community to collaborate on. Currently, Matt is the US Team Lead at Commerce Guys.
John Bloomfield is a Software Engineer who lives in Oxfordshire, UK. He has been working in the web industry since 2002. He specialises in Drupal and is the Technical Director of JRB Digital Ltd. He has worked with Drupal since 2009 and has worked on some of the largest enterprise projects with BBC Studios, PwC, BrightLemon, CTI Digital, Atelier 7 and the Australian Government. At BBC Studios, he was part of the team that created BBC Store and also worked on the BBC Good Food and BBC Top Gear websites. John was the technical reviewer on a book by Alex Burrows called Drupal 8 Blueprints.
Alex Burrows is a web developer who specializes in Drupal and is based in Surrey, UK. He is the Technical Director of a UK-based agency called Digidrop, also based in Surrey, UK. He has worked with Drupal since 2008 and has worked on some well-known brands and large-scale projects; he is also very active within the Drupal community and attends every European and North American Drupalcon, where he is a mentor as well.
He is also one of the directors of DrupalCamp London CIC, which has been running since 2013, and he has been involved in the organization and its running since the beginning. Each year, it is becoming a bigger, better, and more popular event, and it has been marked as the second biggest Drupalcamp in the world. He is author of Drupal 8 Blueprints.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Why subscribe?
Packt.com
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
Packt is searching for authors like you
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the color images
Conventions used
Get in touch
Reviews
Finding Your Way around Drupal
Installing Drupal
Readying the environment
Running the Drupal installation script
Site information
Site maintenance account
Regional settings
Update notifications
The behind-the-scenes tour
Administration menu
Tabs
System message area
Search widget
User menu
Main navigation
Main content area
Summary
Structuring Content Types
What is content?
Content as fields
Understanding content types
Defining the content type
Submission form settings
Publishing options
Display settings
Menu settings
Managing content type fields
Designing a content type
Content type settings
Fielding the content type
Field types
Our content type field
Adding fields to the content type
Summary
Managing Users
User types
User roles
Managing permissions
Users
Creating a user account
Summary
Creating and Editing Content
Using the WYSIWYG editor
Title*
Body
Summary Field
Body text
Text format
Tags
Images
Publishing the content
Additional settings
Revision log message
Menu Settings
Comment Settings
URL Path Settings
Authoring Information
Promotion Options
Completing the process
Summary
Making Drupal Even More Useful
Pathauto
Paragraphs
Content moderation
States
Transitions
Workflow application
Summary
Grabbing Global Readership
Declaring additional languages
Translating content
User language selection
Translating the user interface
Summary
Feeding the Masses – RSS
Why feeds?
Selecting content for a feed
Modifying content for feed selection
Pick-me flags
Tags
Views
Creating the container view
Creating the Pets feed
Display name
Title
Format
Feed settings
Filtering the criteria
Sort criteria
Creating the Travel feed
Title
Feed settings
Format
Filtering criteria
Creating the Leftovers feed
Title
Feed settings
Format
Filtering criteria
Creating the Feed Links block
Summary
Welcome Home!
BAD home page!
Design improvements
Too much content!
No access to content
No RSS feeds menu
We need a Terms and Conditions page
Making the changes
Improving the Frontpage view
Title
Format
Fields
Filtering criteria
Block settings
Pager
Adding an Archive
Adding the RSS Feeds menu
Fixing the Footer menu
Summary
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Preface
Various terms are used to pigeon-hole Drupal: platform, framework, environment, and so on. At its core, Drupal is a content management system (CMS). Like the other terms, the meaning of CMS can be somewhat abstract and ambiguous, so here is what I feel the terms mean within the context of this book:
Content
: Digital material meant for sharing online
Management
: Manipulation for the sake of usability, continuity and viability, including creating, editing, storing, retrieving, indexing, searching, reviewing, moderating, and translating
System
: A cohesive collection of functionality
Put the three together, and you have Drupal at its heart: a primarily used to make digital material available to users of the World Wide Web.
Drupal offers a breadth and depth of capabilities, with a strong baseline functionality that's greatly expandable via a high degree of customization. There is a cost associated with this, and with any product that offers broad personalization, and that is a learning curve that is not insignificant. Think about your first interactions with a car's display console, a smart watch, or even the New York subway system, and you will likely recall an initial paralysis when deciding the first thing to do; for some, there is nothing intuitive in the experience.
My hope, and the goal of this book, is to ease your way into Drupal, demystifying the manner in which to accomplish the more common content management activities.
Who this book is 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 this book covers
Chapter 1, Finding Your Way around Drupal, will give you a step-by-step installation guide on creating a new Drupal site. You will also look at some of the major sections of the Drupal home page and administrative navigation.
Chapter 2, Structuring Content Types, will explore the fundamentals of Drupal content types and explains why we would want to create one. You will also look at content type fields, what they are, and what type fields are available. Gradually, you will also get to know how to create content types and add fields to content types as well.
Chapter 3, Managing Users, will brief you about users, covering all the major aspects of managing users, including roles and permissions for working with the content. You will also learn about the types of users and how Drupal can ensure limited access.
Chapter 4, Creating and Editing Content, will guide you through how to create and edit content. You will also learn how to configure the editor for various roles and how to define a custom URL for content as well.
Chapter 5, Making Drupal Even More Useful, will tell you what modules are, introduce their sources, and explain how to enable them. You will also explore a few of the more popular modules that extend Drupal's usefulness for users focused on content.
Chapter 6, Grabbing Global Readership, will tell you how to use Drupal's translation features. You will learn how to declare additional languages and how to enable the user to select their preferred language. You will also learn how to add icons that are used by site visitors and import user interface translations.
Chapter 7, Feeding the Masses - RSS, will tell you all about what an RSS feed is and how to create content meant for such a feed. You will also learn about the views module, what views are, and how to create a view with multiple feed displays.
Chapter 8, Welcome Home!, will guide you through how to improve a weak home page by editing its view, by providing an archive and recent content block, and by changing the footer menu.
To get the most out of this book
In order to work with Drupal 8, and to run the code examples found in this book, the following software will be required:
Web server: Apache (recommended)
Database: MySQL
PHP
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Finding Your Way around Drupal
This chapter will take you step by step through the Drupal site installation process. Following that, we will take a quick tour of the Drupal administration interface. During the course of this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:
How to navigate the Drupal installation script
How to log in to the Drupal administrative interface
How to navigate and use the administrative interface
Drupal-specific terms
Installing Drupal
Installing Drupal is a two-phase process. The first phase is the readying of the environment to host a Drupal website, and the second is running the installation script to create the website. Let's take a quick look at what Drupal is and the requirements for the first phase.
Readying the environment
Physically, Drupal is a collection of folders and files, most often found within a parent folder that is typically referred to as the Drupal root. Drupal also consists of a database, where the site's content and various settings are kept.
The Drupal root will most often be situated on a computer known as a web server that may contain many websites, though the web server could also exist on a laptop for use in developing websites. The environment in which Drupal exists will consist of the following:
An operating system, which is usually Linux, but can be any another, such as Windows, OS X, or Unix
A web server, such as Apache or Nginx
A database, most often MySQL, which may be on the same server or on a separate database server
The PHP language
