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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

Hosting Drupal and platform requirements

Drupal requires a hosted platform to run any Drupal application. Drupal runs as a server-side rendered PHP application accessible from a web browser. The hosting platform must be able to process requests made through its web server to execute the Drupal application. Drupal is not stateless. To be able to make configurations and store content, Drupal requires the hosting platform to persistently store files and structured content in a database. The context of each request helps the application determine how to process the request. Drupal loads its configuration, queries relevant information from the database, and leverages PHP to do the processing.

The following figure shows an example LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack with a Drupal application:

Figure 3.1 – High-level LAMP stack and request flow

Figure 3.1 – High-level LAMP stack and request flow

Each version of Drupal sets its own platform requirements. Platform requirements are published on drupal...