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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By: Adam Bergstein

Overview of this book

Learning Drupal can be challenging because of its robust, extensible, and powerful capability for digital experiences, making it difficult for beginners to grasp and use it for application development. If you’re looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge, this Drupal 10 Masterclass is for you. With this book, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of Drupal by understanding its core concepts, including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, framework, and latest features. Equipped with foundational knowledge, you’ll bootstrap and install your first project with expert guidance on maintaining Drupal applications. Progressively, you’ll build applications using Drupal’s core features such as content structures, multilingual support, users, roles, Views, search, and digital assets. You’ll discover techniques for developing modules and themes and harness Drupal’s robust content management through layout builder, blocks, and content workflows. The book familiarizes you with prominent tools such as Git, Drush, and Composer for code deployments and DevOps practices for Drupal application management. You’ll also explore advanced use cases for content migration and multisite implementation, extending your application’s capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have learned how to build a successful Drupal application but may also find yourself contributing to the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1:Foundational Concepts
7
Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining
10
Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration
12
Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions
17
Part 4:Using - Content Management
21
Part 5:Advanced Topics
Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Users

Drupal core has a subsystem for user management. The foundational feature serves as the tool in which users can access Drupal’s backend systems. This is fundamental for site builders and content managers.

User entity

The user subsystem starts with the user entity. This entity, like others, is built on top of the entity system and is afforded structured data and management for Drupal users.

The user entity is fieldable. Enabling fields for users affords the ability for site builders to configure user profiles. By default, the user entity has a username, password, and email, all of which can’t be modifiable but can be harnessed by the features in the user subsystem.

Features

The user subsystem has several features that are built on top of the user entity.

Users can log into Drupal to perform administrative actions and manage content, as well as site-building. This leverages the entity’s username and password. The following figure shows Drupal...