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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

4.5 (17)
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.
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Defining permissions and checking whether a user has access

In Drupal, roles and permissions are used to define robust access control lists for users. Modules use permissions to check whether the current user has access to perform an action, view specific items, or do other operations. Modules then define the permissions that are used so that Drupal is aware of them. Developers can then construct roles, which are made up of enabled permissions.

In this recipe, we will define new permission(s) in a module that is used to check if the user can mark content as promoted to the front page or sticky at the top of lists. This permission will be used in an entity field access hook to deny access to the fields if the user is missing the permission.

Getting ready

Create a new module, as we did in the first recipe. We will refer to the module as mymodule throughout this recipe. Use your module’s name in the following recipe as appropriate.

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