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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

Contact forms in Drupal

Have you ever gone to a website that has a “Contact us” page where a visitor can fill out a form? That is contact forms in Drupal. They give visitors to a site a means of communicating with those who run it. This could be someone who wants to inquire about hosting a party at a restaurant or leveraging services to remodel a house. It is very common for a website to offer more than just a phone number, especially given the ability to communicate digitally.

Basic information

The contact forms feature comes out of the box with Drupal in the Contact module. Forms are commonly exposed to end users that allow for engagement through the Drupal application.

The Contact module represents one of the more lightweight systems in Drupal. It is composed of an entity type, and contact forms, with bundles for each form. Form submissions represent instances of the entity. Given that it leverages entities, contact forms are fieldable, much like other structured...