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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)

Determining how the current language is selected

Out of the box, Drupal is capable of determining which language it should show for both the content and user interface without much more than adding a few settings from the admin screen. This is a required step in making sure that, at all times, the appropriate language is used for each user when presenting content.

The following recipe will show you how to set the parameters for how Drupal decides which language to use to present content on a page to a user. There are a handful of ways you can detect the language to use.

Getting ready

First, log in to your Drupal site and go to the Extend section of the admin. Enable the Language, Content Translation, and Interface Translation modules.

How to do it…

  1. Next, navigate to the Administration | Configuration | Regional and Language | Languages sections of the admin.
  2. Click on the Detection and selection tab. There are two sections on this screen:
    • The top section...