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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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Plug and Play with Plugins

Plugins power many items in Drupal, such as blocks, field types, and field formatters. Plugins and plugin types are provided by modules. They provide a swappable and specific functionality.

In this chapter, we will implement a block plugin. We will use the Plugin API to provide a custom field type along with a widget and formatter for the field. The last recipe will show you how to create and use a custom plugin type.

Upcoming changes to the plugin system in Drupal minor versions

PHP 8 provides a feature called PHP attributes (https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.attributes.overview.php). With Drupal 10’s adoption of PHP 8.1, there is consideration to adopt PHP attributes over code document annotations, which are used in this chapter.

Support for PHP attributes instead of annotations may be available in Drupal 10.1, the first minor release of Drupal 10. Annotations will be supported throughout Drupal 10 but may become deprecated. Deprecating...

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