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Drupal 9 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 9 Module Development Get up and running with building powerful Drupal modules and applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204621
Length 626 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Daniel Sipos Daniel Sipos
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Developing for Drupal 9 2. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Module FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing 4. Chapter 4: Theming 5. Chapter 5: Menus and Menu Links 6. Chapter 6: Data Modeling and Storage 7. Chapter 7: Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. Chapter 8: The Database API 9. Chapter 9: Custom Fields 10. Chapter 10: Access Control 11. Chapter 11: Caching 12. Chapter 12: JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Chapter 13: Internationalization and Languages 14. Chapter 14: Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Chapter 15: Views 16. Chapter 16: Working with Files and Images 17. Chapter 17: Automated Testing 18. Chapter 18: Drupal Security 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technologies that drive Drupal

Drupal has gone through a series of different best practices for when it comes to how it should be installed. But the reality is that they are simply tailored to different needs. The most common, and the most recommended by this author, is the Composer-based approach with the Drupal community-promoted project here: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/starting-a-site-using-drupal-composer-project-templates.

You can read more about how to install Drupal there, so I will not go into details here. Instead, let's talk a bit about the technologies that power (or are needed by) Drupal 9.

PHP

Drupal is written in the PHP programming language. PHP is a widely supported, multiplatform, and web-centric scripting language. Since Drupal is written in PHP, this book will largely feature code written in PHP, albeit with Drupal standard practices being kept in mind.

It is very important to note that the minimum version of PHP required...

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