Drupal 8.x

Hello there

I just installed the 8.0.1 version of Drupal and I was experimenting on the use of the REST Web Services. My question has to do with the formating JSON objects of content types with references to another content.

To be more specific I have created Content Type A (Clubs) and Content Type B (Athletes). Then in the Clubs Content Type I created an Entity Reference (field_athletes) to the Athletes Content Types. Finally I created two Athletes, namely Athlete A and Athlete B and a Club, Club A,referencing to Athlete A and B, i.e.

Module development suspended until userpoints module ported to Drupal 8

I am developing a Namecheap registrar module (that will be contributed to community for now it is on github) for Drupal 8 . When it will finished the Drupal 8 site will be selling domains . Briefly speaking It will be a Namecheap domain reseller module.

I am sharing screenshots what I 've done so far.

So i'm trying to work out a website idea that needs users to be able to filter by content info (title, name, desc, length, etc) and scenarios so that they can wittle down content to a more meaningful result.

As well, I want users to be able to submit said content and I have 3 layers of information they must submit, first being normal fieldable content, name, title, description, length etc.

I used the intsall from the URL and this is the error message from browser

Failed to fetch file due to error "cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)"
Unable to retrieve Drupal project from https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/gmap-7.x-2.10.tar.gz.

I'm a half-ass front-end developer. I can figure stuff out in time. However despite my spotty knowledge, go as in depth as you'd like with an explanation, and I'll research the topic.

A summary of my project:

how is this done??? i want to upload pictures larger than 2mb but it wont let me if it goes into public files. i made a folder at sites/default/files/private and i added it to the settings.php quotes for the path, saved it, and cleared the cache but still says private system path not set. where am i going wrong here?