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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

Roles

Roles are the different user personas for the Drupal application and are granted to users that match that persona. An effective content management analogy ties to publications that have authors and editors. The two personas have two different functions: one to write content and one to review and approve content. In Drupal, a role is effective at establishing different personas.

This goes beyond just content-related use cases as Drupal can also leverage roles for performing specific administrative actions. Consider a human resources use case where new joiners need accounts on the Drupal application or accounts need to be revoked for those who leave. A specific role can be established that is just able to manage accounts.

Role entity

Like a user, a role is an entity. It is a very simple configuration entity that only has a name and is not fieldable. Given that the entity system allows for relationships between entities, a user entity has a one-to-many relationship with...