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Overview of Drupal and the reasons to choose it as a reliable Content Management System (CMS).
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Overview of modules and the functionality they can be used for.
Overview of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Drupal project, and Drupal Association.
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Overview of user accounts, permissions, and roles.
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Overview of the administrative parts of a view.
Drupal's Entity system provides several hooks that allow custom code to interact with various parts of the entity life cycle.
In this tutorial we'll:
- Examine the available hooks
- Learn how to make use of them to act on several different types of operations on individual entities
By the end if this tutorial you should have a better understanding of the hooks available to developers who want to respond to entity lifecycle operations and how to use them to customize the way specific entity types work.