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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By: Adam Bergstein

Overview of this book

Learning Drupal can be challenging because of its robust, extensible, and powerful capability for digital experiences, making it difficult for beginners to grasp and use it for application development. If you’re looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge, this Drupal 10 Masterclass is for you. With this book, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of Drupal by understanding its core concepts, including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, framework, and latest features. Equipped with foundational knowledge, you’ll bootstrap and install your first project with expert guidance on maintaining Drupal applications. Progressively, you’ll build applications using Drupal’s core features such as content structures, multilingual support, users, roles, Views, search, and digital assets. You’ll discover techniques for developing modules and themes and harness Drupal’s robust content management through layout builder, blocks, and content workflows. The book familiarizes you with prominent tools such as Git, Drush, and Composer for code deployments and DevOps practices for Drupal application management. You’ll also explore advanced use cases for content migration and multisite implementation, extending your application’s capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have learned how to build a successful Drupal application but may also find yourself contributing to the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1:Foundational Concepts
7
Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining
10
Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration
12
Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions
17
Part 4:Using - Content Management
21
Part 5:Advanced Topics
Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Use cases

Search in Drupal helps both users and site builders create capabilities in applications to find content.

Querying for two different movie titles simultaneously

Drupal’s native search form, which invokes Drupal’s search processor, supports various search parameters. In the search form, the following can be entered:

"Wizard of Oz" OR "Gone with the wind"

And, don’t forget, Drupal does offer some advanced search options that can abstract Drupal’s native search form.

Filter by sport

This use case is perfect for the Facets module. After enabling facets, which also enables Search API, facets can be created through Search API’s configuration (admin/config/search/search-api). Specific field-type widgets can be implemented through search API processors, specifically a preprocess query processor. Then, leveraging the advanced settings of the search page configuration, the processor can be added and the facets can...