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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

Extending contact forms

Like most features in Drupal, contact forms can be extended to address a few common use cases not found out of the box.

Viewing and managing form submissions

Unlike other entity types in Drupal, there is no management interface for form submissions out of the box. The Contact Storage project (drupal.org/project/contact_storage) provides persistent storage and an administrative interface that allows you to view and manage form submissions. This is a useful feature that helps expose form submissions in Drupal rather than relying on email notifications.

Beyond just a page

By default, the experience of using a contact form is like building a page. However, the Contact Block project allows for contact forms to be exposed as blocks. Managing blocks is covered in greater detail in Chapter 15. This allows for a contact form to leverage block visibility settings to be displayed through various contextual options across pages and in specific regions of the...