Panels 3: High-Level Overview

What is Panels, and why is it awesome?

  1. Panels allows a site admins to create customized layouts for multiple uses.

    Populating user fields from a commerce order

    This tutorial is adapted from issue https://www.drupal.org/node/1980974.

    By default Commerce creates a Drupal user when an anonymous user completes checkout. If you have added fields to your site's user schema, it can be useful to populate them with the information the customer provides during checkout. For example, maybe you have added first and last name fields to users. If this information is entered during checkout, then you can avoid asking the user to enter it again when they log in.

    Overriding the basic gift pages with views

    As the basic module is very strict with hardcoded lists and displays for the "buy-a-gift"-phase, you might want to use views for customized displays.

    How to use the Resource Conflict module when creating a Course Schedule

    Use case: I wanted to create a Course Schedule, where the user (faculty member) can select a number of Courses from a schedule.
    If any of the selected courses are scheduled with conflicting dates, then an error message will be displayed to the user, indicating which of the Courses contain conflicts.

    RESTful module - Best practices

    The RESTful module achieves a practical RESTful for Drupal following best practices.

    Further documentation and examples can be found at the RESTful module wiki.

    Concept

    The following also describes the difference between other modules such as RestWs and Services Entity.

    How to improve security on Drupal websites

    Hiding Drupal Traits

    Some users believe that hiding Drupal traits and characteristics may help prevent automated attacks on Drupal sites. This practice is controversial and has been disputed at Hide, obscure, or remove clues that a site runs on Drupal.

    That being said, the following is a list of actions that you may take to attempt to conceal the fact that your site is running on Drupal:

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