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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)

Migrating data from CSV file(s)

From time to time, you will encounter the need to migrate data into Drupal, which comes in various formats. One such popular format is CSV, or a comma-separated value. CSV files can be exported from various database clients and spreadsheet software and make an excellent data source candidate for migrations.

Getting ready

From here, we are going to need to add two modules to migrate from CSV files. Using Composer, download the following modules:

You will also need to create a custom module where we will place our migration definitions, source plugins, and process plugin classes. At this point, you should be familiar with creating a custom module. Consult the previous chapters if you need to refresh.

How to do it…

When you...