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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

You're reading from Drupal 8 Development Cookbook Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788290401

Length 430 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Drupal

Concepts

Ecommerce

Author (1):

Matt Glaman

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Up and Running with Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER

2. The Content Authoring Experience

3. Displaying Content through Views

4. Extending Drupal

5. Frontend for the Win

6. Creating Forms with the Form API

7. Plug and Play with Plugins

8. Multilingual and Internationalization

9. Configuration Management - Deploying in Drupal 8

10. The Entity API

11. Off the Drupalicon Island

12. Web Services

13. The Drupal CLI

Chapter 4. Extending Drupal

This chapter dives into extending Drupal using a custom module:

Creating a module
Defining a custom page
Defining permissions
Providing the configuration on installation or update
Creating an event subscriber
Using Features 3.0

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Authors (1)

Matt Glaman

Matt Glaman

Matt Glaman is an open source developer who has been working with Drupal since 2013. Since then, he has contributed to Drupal core and over 60 community projects. He is also a speaker at multiple Drupal community events, including DrupalCon. Matt is currently a principal software engineer at Acquia and was previously a product lead at Centarro, helping maintain Drupal Commerce.

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