Mini-project for Drupal candidates

🎩 Hat tip to our friends at Lullabot for the awesome simple setup article.

1. Make sure you have Composer installed locally.
2. Make sure you have SQLite installed locally. If you're on a Mac, you most likely already do. (You need it if you want to use these setup instructions, at least.) If you're on a mac you can install with homebew. brew install sqlite
3. Create a git clone of this project. All commands from here assume you're inside the project folder (probably /drupal-mini-project unless you were fancy and changed it to something else).

This project installs Drupal core using Composer. To get going, start by installing core and drush.

composer install

This project uses the Umami demo site as the basis for your work. Because who doesn't like yummy food? To get your local setup, use these commands.

vendor/bin/drush site-install demo_umami --db-url=sqlite://../drupal.sqlite
vendor/bin/drush runserver

By default, the server will listen on http://127.0.0.1:8888. The site-install command will give you your username and password, or you can vendor/bin/drush uli to get a login link.

You may find in working with this project that you run out of memory. If you need to raise the memory limit try the following.

1. Depending on how you installed PHP you will need to find where your specific php.ini file is.
2. This will show the path to your php.ini file. php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep 'php.ini'
3. Load the php.ini file in your favorite text editor and change the memory_limit to something like 512M.

If you need to install modules and/or themes to complete your task, please feel free to.

For contributed Drupal.org modules, please use composer:

composer require drupal/example

For custom modules, you can include them directly in the code base.