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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Sipos
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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Sipos

Overview of this book

Embark on a journey of Drupal module development with the latest edition of this must-have guide written by Daniel Sipos – a Drupal community member! This fourth edition is meticulously revised to cover the latest Drupal 10 enhancements that will help you build custom Drupal modules with an understanding of code deprecations, changing architecture, data modeling, multilingual ecosystem, and so on. You’ll begin with understanding the core components of Drupal 10 architecture, discovering its subsystems and unlocking the secrets of creating your first Drupal module. Further, you'll delve into Drupal logging and mailing systems, creating theme hooks, and rendering a layout. As you progress, you'll work with different types of data storage, custom entities, field types, and work with Database APIs for lower-level database queries. You'll learn to reap the power of JavaScript and ensure that your code works seamlessly on multilingual sites. You'll also learn to create custom views, automate tests for your functionalities, and write secure code for your Drupal apps. By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence in developing complex modules that can solve even the most complex business problems and might even become a valuable contributor to the Drupal community!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing

Developing for Drupal

Drupal is a web-based Content Management System (CMS). While it is useful out of the box, it is designed with developers in mind. The purpose of this book is to explain how Drupal can be extended in many ways and for many purposes. To this end, the version we will use will be the latest one at the time of writing this book—Drupal 10.

In this book, we will cover a wide range of development topics. We’ll discuss how to create a Drupal module, and as we go through the chapters, we’ll cover many concepts and tips that will help you build what you need. The goal is not only to explain how things work but also to go through some examples in order to demonstrate this. Since no book can contain everything, I hope that after reading this book, you’ll be able to expand on your knowledge on your own by using the resources I reference and by looking into the Drupal core code itself. As helpful as such a book can be for learning any kind of software...