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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
Book Image

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

Configuring contact forms

Most of the configuration for contact forms happens through the aforementioned form configuration operations due to their association with structured content in Drupal. There are a few more configurations possible.

User profile configuration

It should not be assumed that a Drupal application wants to have engagement with users. While this feature is provided out of the box, it can be turned off by default globally through Drupal’s account settings configuration at admin/config/people/accounts. Each logged-in user can enable or disable a form at their discretion by editing their user profile and changing the Personal Contact Form setting.

Permissions

Before launching the Drupal application, double-check the contact form permissions:

Figure 13.4 – Permissions for contact forms

Figure 13.4 – Permissions for contact forms

Figure 13.4 shows how to map roles to control both who can use or access the forms themselves and who has permission to administer...