Drupal 8 for Absolute Beginners

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Contents at a Glance
6. Contents
7. About the Author
8. About the Technical Reviewer
9. Acknowledgments
10. Introduction
11. Chapter 1: Installing Drupal
    1. Installing Acquia Dev Desktop
    2. Installing Drupal 8
    3. Configuring Drupal 8
    4. Summary
12. Chapter 2: Site Building: Building Drupal Sites Without Programming
    1. Setting a New Site Title and Logo
    2. Adding More Users to Your New Drupal site
    3. Assigning Roles and Permissions to Site Users
    4. Creating a Blog
       1. Editing and Customizing Your Blog Post
       2. Adding More Fields to Your Blog Node
    5. Working with Blocks
    6. Working with Views
    7. Changing Your Site’s Theme
       1. Installing a Theme Using Drush (Preferred Method)
       2. Installing a Theme from a URL
    8. Installing New Add-on Modules
       1. Installing a Module Using Drush (Preferred Method)
       2. Installing a Module from a URL
    9. Summary
13. Chapter 3: Getting Started with HTML
    1. Creating Your First Web Page
    2. Adding Comments to Your HTML
    3. Working with Images
    4. Creating Lists
    5. Creating Tables
    6. Adding Anchors
    7. Creating Forms
       1. Text Fields
       2. Password Fields
       3. Radio Buttons
       4. Drop-downs
       5. Text Areas
       6. “Submit” Buttons
       7. All Together Now
    8. Using Layout Elements
    9. Summary
14. Chapter 4: Creating a Basic Drupal Module with HTML Output
    1. Working with the Drupal Docroot Directory
    2. Creating a Basic Drupal Module
    3. Looking at the Model, View, Controller Design Pattern
    4. Showcasing Different HTML Elements Within the Drupal Module
    5. Renaming a Module—and How to Create a Module Not Named “hello_world”
    6. Summary
15. Chapter 5: A CSS Primer for Drupal
    1. A Quick Look Back at the Limits of HTML
    2. Styling Your Text with an External Style Sheet
    3. Using <div> and <span> Tags
    4. Commenting Your CSS
    5. Creating Additional Styles
    6. Choosing Between Classes and IDs
    7. Working with Conflicting Styles
    8. Using Internal Style Sheets
    9. Using Inline Styles
    10. Understanding the Cascade Order
    11. Working with Commonly Used CSS Styles
        1. Text Styles
        2. Fonts and Font Sizes
        3. Links
        4. Tables
    12. Working with the CSS Box Model
    13. Summary
16. Chapter 6: Adding CSS to Your Drupal Module
    1. Using CSS Within Your
    2. Summary
17. Chapter 7: A JavaScript Primer for Drupal
    1. Getting Started with JavaScript
    2. Adding Basic JavaScript to a Web Page
    3. Installing Firebug
    4. Using Firebug
    5. Modifying JavaScript Code
    6. Working with JavaScript Programming Constructs
       1. Variables
       2. Arrays
       3. Objects
       4. Booleans
    7. Creating JavaScript Events
    8. Using the jQuery Library
    9. Using the jQuery Library with Events
    10. Summary
18. Chapter 8: Adding JavaScript to Your Drupal Module
    1. Adding JavaScript to Your Drupal Module
    2. Summary
19. Chapter 9: A PHP Primer for Drupal
    1. Verifying Your Installation of PHP
    2. Serving Up a Hello World Web Page with PHP
    3. Working with Some Basic PHP Code
    4. Working with PHP Looping Structures
       1. Using the foreach Loop
       2. Using the while Loop
    5. Printing to the Screen
    6. Using If, If Else, and Else If Statements
    7. Switch Statements
    8. Working with Strings
       1. strlen
       2. strpos and stripos
    9. Using Functions
    10. Functions Operating on Arrays
    11. Summary
20. Chapter 10: Adding PHP-Generated Output to Your Drupal Module
    1. Adding Custom PHP to the hello_world.module File
    2. Summary
21. Chapter 11: Creating a Drupal Block Programmatically and Basic MySQL Usage
    1. Creating Your First Block Programmatically
    2. Learning about the Drupal Database and Using a MySQL Query in a Custom Block
    3. Using a Query to Display Data in a Custom Programmatically Created Block
    4. MySQL Primer
       1. Wildcard Character in Queries
    5. Summary
22. Chapter 12: Theming Your Site Part 1: Theme Functions and a Twig Primer
    1. Theming Output from a Module
       1. Using a Theme Function
    2. In Depth with Twig: A Twig Primer
       1. Twig Variables
    3. Summary
23. Chapter 13: Theming Your Site Part 2: Creating a Custom Theme and Subtheme
    1. Creating a Subtheme
    2. Creating a New Base Theme
    3. Overriding Existing Theme Functions
    4. Exploring Other Options for Overriding Theme Functions
    5. Summary
24. Chapter 14: Working with Forms and Creating Custom Forms
    1. Using the Form API
    2. Creating a Node Programmatically Using a Custom Form
    3. Showing a Custom Form in a Block
    4. Summary
25. Chapter 15: Using Git to Manage Your Source Code
    1. Introducing Git
    2. Installing Git
       1. Installing Git on a Mac
       2. Installing Git for Windows
       3. Installing Git with Linux
    3. Creating an Account on Github and Downloading the Book’s Code
    4. Using Git to Contribute to a Project
       1. Creating a Github Repository
       2. Navigating Your Github Repository
    5. More Great Git Commands
    6. Checking Differences Between Branches and HEAD
    7. Using a GUI for Git
    8. Summary
26. Chapter 16: Advanced MySQL Primer
    1. Creating a New Database
       1. Using phpMyAdmin to Create a Database
       2. Using the Command Line to Create a Database
    2. Creating Tables
       1. Using phpMyAdmin to Create a Table
       2. Using the Command Line to Create a Table
    3. Inserting Data into a Table
    4. Updating Tables
    5. Deleting Data
    6. Creating and Editing Tables in Drupal
       1. Creating the Table in the Drupal Module
       2. Inserting Data in a Drupal Table
    7. Updating and Deleting in Drupal
    8. Summary
27. Chapter 17: Linux
    1. Introduction to Linux on a Mac
    2. Connecting to Ubuntu
       1. Connecting to Ubuntu from a Mac
    3. Getting to Know Some Common Linux Commands
       1. Navigating Among Directories and Managing Files
       2. Installing LAMP
       3. Adding Security with Permissions
       4. Searching for Specific Files
    4. Creating Shell Scripts
    5. Editing Files on a Linux Box
       1. Editing Files with Komodo Edit
    6. Summary
28. Chapter 18: Publishing Your Site to a Production Linux Box
    1. Setting Up the Linux Box in the Cloud
       1. Connecting to a New Linux Box Via SSH
       2. Setting Up the LAMP Stack on an Ubuntu Linux Box
       3. Installing git for Version Controlling Your Code Base
       4. Installing Drush
    2. Putting Up Your First Web Pages
    3. Installing Drupal
    4. Getting a URL for Your New Drupal Site
    5. Summary
29. Appendix A: Other Ways to Install Drupal
    1. Installing Drupal with MAMP on a Mac
    2. Installing Drupal with XAMPP on a Windows Machine
    3. Summary
30. Appendix B: Basic Linux Commands
31. Index