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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)

Extending Drupal with Custom Code

The greatest component of Drupal is its extensibility through modules. In this chapter, we will explore how to create a custom module that can be installed on your Drupal site. This chapter will explain how PSR-4 autoloading works with extensions and how to leverage class autoloading. You will be able to create a controller for a custom page and specify additional permissions to check whether the user has them. You will also understand what hooks and events in Drupal are, and how to interact with them. This chapter also lays the foundations for the following chapters.

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

  • Creating a module
  • Providing configuration settings for your module
  • Defining permissions and checking whether a user has access
  • Hooking into Drupal to react to entity changes
  • Creating an event subscriber to react to events
  • Creating a custom Drush command