In this hands-on course...
A Drupal expert with 10 years of experience will give you a deep dive into the power that Drupal core has to offer. *2021 & 2022 best sold Drupal book on Leanpub.com!*
- 4.6/5 author rating. Course already taken by 1500 people from 55 countries worldwide.
- +2400 lines of ready-to-use code snippets
- Full project code included
- Build a real platform, not just separate tutorials
- Suitable for individual training or teams, also for experienced coders from other frameworks
- Also part of the Udemy Business training
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Video Courses
Drupal developer essentials
New!What you'll learn:
- Composer commands
- Development & debug
- Configuration management
This course includes:
- 2 hours on-demand video
- 12 downloadable resources
- Full lifetime access
Drupal 9: start with custom entities
1097 studentsWhat you'll learn:
- Set up a custom content entity
- Add fields to a custom entity
- Build a multi-step entity form and submit data to the database
- ...Many more things!
This course includes:
- 2.5 hours on-demand video
- 18 downloadable resources
- Full lifetime access
Drupal 9: Advanced module development guide
597 studentsWhat you'll learn:
- Programmatic database actions on custom entities: insert / update / reference / delete
- Create a block plugin and use dependency injection to load in the current entity
- Set up and use advanced core caching mechanisms like cache tags and cache contexts
- ...Many more things!
This course includes:
- 4.5 hours on-demand video
- 22 downloadable resources
- Full lifetime access
User Reviews
The course has been taken by people from over 55 countries.
Tim Camps
Jun 2023
As a long time Drupal user (mostly theming), I really enjoyed the class.
This class will help you on the way with setting up a solid develop environment and get you started with Drupal Configuration Management.

Gergő Szabó
Escellent
Engaging delivery and clear explanations, five stars!!
Part 1
Drupal developer essentials
- Composer
- Basic composer commands
- Comparing with drupal 7 and earlier
- Patching with composer
- Git best practices
- CLI tools
- Development & debug
- Xdebug
- Webprofiler
- Configuration management
- Basic configuration management
- Creating custom configuration settings
- Different configuration per environment
Part 2
Project code and set-up
- Seed data
- Project set-up
Not in this course
⛔ Please do not buy this course if you are looking specifically for the topics below
How to install drupalServer set-upJSON API / WebservicesUnit-testingDrupal theming guide
Part 3
Custom entities 101, CRUD operations, workflow states and access
- Content entities
- Building our first content entity
- Securing access of our entities
- Adding the create/edit/delete forms (CRUD)
- Views integration of our custom entity to add a listing
- Getting up-to-speed: making the entity fieldable
- Media field with library
- Adding fields to the custom entity via the UI
- Adding workflows and moderation to custom entities
- Change entity access based on workflow states
- Adding views plugins: custom fields and operation links
- Adding a custom controller for direct publishing
- Building an overview page
- Adding a custom views filter based on moderation state
- Optimize the entity teaser with custom variables for twig
- Adding css to views
- Adding a user-friendly multistep form for entity creation
- Add custom actions to the form
- Conditional fields in the Form API
- Updating our data seeds
Part 4
Building the application. Storing, validating and rendering data
- Add dynamic menu links with Menu plugins
- Building the offer page with twig: theming a custom content entity
- Adding a dynamic bidding form to our page with an advanced block plugin
- Adding site-wide css and javascript
- Adding a code-only bid entity
- Saving the bid entities on form submission
- Form validation based on highest bids
- Add dynamic variables to our entity teaser
- Validating the entity with constraints
- Displaying all bids in a dynamically rendered table
- Integrating the core revision system into the bidding process to raise a bid
- Deleting a bid with a core dialog pop-up
Part 5
Transitions, Events, Caching and user registration
- User notifications on transition events
- Update entire view with custom ajax callback
- OO in practice: deletion of bid and notification entities when an offer gets deleted
- Caching in-depth
- Caching of views pages
- Caching of custom entity pages
- Use of cache contexts and cache tags for caching custom blocks
- Use of cacheable dependencies in render arrays
- Invalidate cache of another entity after saving
- Dispatch custom Events with an EventSubscriber to redirect users
- Customize the user registration process with a RouteSubscriber
- Finishing up the platform
Screenshots
You will be building the following software from scratch with Drupal 9.
(Not much effort was put in design, because this is not a theming course!)








