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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

Permissions

A permission is an action that is granted to a role. Authorization happens when a user attempts to perform an action that is managed by permission. The role of that user is dereferenced and a set of aggregated permissions that have been granted to the user are checked.

Access control

Drupal leverages permissions as its means of access control. Users are assigned specific roles. Those roles have specific permissions assigned to them. Access control happens when a user attempts to act Drupal. Drupal will perform authorization based on the permissions granted to roles. As a simple example, the “manage users” permission can be granted to a role for human resources (HR), who are responsible for managing new hires or attrition. When one of the members of HR logs in and tries to go to Drupal’s user management page, they are granted access where other Drupal users would not.

Important note

It is good practice to implement a “least privilege...