You're reading from Drupal 10 Masterclass Build responsive Drupal applications to deliver custom and extensible digital experiences to users

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633104

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Drupal

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Adam Bergstein

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Table of Contents (31) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Foundational Concepts

2. Chapter 1: What is Drupal? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Drupal Core, Modules, and Themes

4. Chapter 3: Infrastructure and Overview of Technical Architecture

5. Chapter 4: Drupal Community

6. Chapter 5: What’s New in Drupal 10

7. Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining

8. Chapter 6: Bootstrapping, Installing, and Configuring a New Drupal Project

9. Chapter 7: Maintaining Drupal

10. Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration

11. Chapter 8: Content Structures and Multilingual

12. Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions

13. Chapter 10: Drupal Views and Display Modes

14. Chapter 11: Files, Images, and Media

15. Chapter 12: Search

16. Chapter 13: Contact Forms

17. Part 4:Using - Content Management

18. Chapter 14: Basic Content Authoring Experience

19. Chapter 15: Visual Content Management

20. Chapter 16: Content Workflows

21. Part 5:Advanced Topics

22. Chapter 17: Git, Drush, Composer, and DevOps

23. Chapter 18: Module Development

24. Chapter 19: Theme Development

25. Chapter 20: Delivering Drupal Content through APIs

26. Chapter 21: Migrating Content into Drupal

27. Chapter 22: Multisite Management

28. Index

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Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Terminology

Users

Drupal core has a subsystem for user management. The foundational feature serves as the tool in which users can access Drupal’s backend systems. This is fundamental for site builders and content managers.

User entity

The user subsystem starts with the user entity. This entity, like others, is built on top of the entity system and is afforded structured data and management for Drupal users.

The user entity is fieldable. Enabling fields for users affords the ability for site builders to configure user profiles. By default, the user entity has a username, password, and email, all of which can’t be modifiable but can be harnessed by the features in the user subsystem.

Features

The user subsystem has several features that are built on top of the user entity.

Users can log into Drupal to perform administrative actions and manage content, as well as site-building. This leverages the entity’s username and password. The following figure shows Drupal...