Full introduction to Drupal 8 theming in easy steps
What you'll learn
- Understand what Drupal 8 themes are
- working with template files
- Change any markup of a Drupal 8 website
- Add css and javascript files to it
- understanding the preprocess functions in Drupal 8
- Understand the core concepts of the Twig templating language
- create a Drupal 8 theme
Course content
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- 07:28Preparing our working environment
Requirements
- Some experience with HTML and CSS and a tiny bit of PHP
Description
Drupal 8 is out and from now on - every new Drupal website should be using the latest version of this wonderful Content Management Framework.
That means that we should learn to change the front-end of our Drupal 8 system - the way we need it.
There are two main things that are changing the game in the Drupal 8 theming
- Drupal 8 is built on top of Symfony framework
- There are lessons learned from Drupal 7
that means that now the theming of a Drupal website is a bit different - everything is much more structured (almost all the markup is in template files), the templates are using Twig and everywhere one has to deal with code - one finds objects and classes.
In the end - it is not as scary as it looks like - simply everything evolved into something much better, much simpler and elegant, something that is not applicable only in the context of Drupal and that is following general web-development best practices.
In this course I tried to explain the general topics the shortest and the clearest way possible as afterwards I tried to illustrate everything with some simple examples. My opinion is that when you see some simple example working and when you try it by yourself - you already have the tools to investigate further and find exactly what you need to be done.
I've been doing drupal-development and theming for many years now - so I know what exactly are the topics that are needed the most - I tried to include all of those and in the end I wrapped all that was learned in an example website that we will convert together form a static html-css version into a working Drupal 8 theme.
Lets conquer together the Drupal 8 theming layer!
Who this course is for:
- newbies to Drupal 8 that want to get started with Theming
- Drupal 7 developers and/or people with any Drupal experience that want to learn how the theming in Drupal 8 is being done
- people that have a Drupal 8 website and want to change it's look
- developers that want to see how Drupal 8 theming is being done
Instructor
![Nikolay Borisov](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Highly dedicated developer with a true passion for programming. In my work I am taking care of every aspect of the Drupal Application’s functionality. I love to teach Drupal at my work and in any other possible occasions.
I have Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science and I am working as PHP developer for over 8 years and as PHP Drupal developer for more than 7 years.
Other technologies that I really love are Elastic Search, Varnish, MongoDB, Mink/Behat, Python ...