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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Migrating External Data into Drupal

Whether you have been developing for a while or just getting started in your career, one very common situation you will encounter is the need to bring in data from an external source. This can include migrating from older versions of Drupal, migrating from sites not based on Drupal, different database engines, static HTML files, or incorporating data from CSV or HTTP APIs with JSON or XML.

No matter the scenario, Drupal contains several powerful tools to solve these needs with the core Migrate module. Under the hood, it also contains a powerful plugin system that allows you to extend and define your own data source or process plugin, as well as a healthy ecosystem of contributed modules to enhance the migration experience in Drupal.

In this chapter, we will look at the Migrate module in Drupal 10, and you will learn how to achieve the following:

  • Migrating from a previous version of Drupal
  • Migrating data from a comma-separated value...