Follow the Examples project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrupalExamples Examples For Developers The Examples for Developers project aims to provide high-quality, well-documented API examples for a broad range of Drupal core functionality. Do not enable this module in production environment! The Examples project contains many modules which hopefully illustrate best practices for implementing various Drupal APIs. These modules can be enabled individually, and will typically add menu items to your site, which should guide you through their features.

This article was originally written based on the Spark distribution. Installation profiles are like modules Installation profiles in Drupal have all the functionality of modules, including access to hooks and plugins and, critically, the ability to provide configuration for your site in the form of .yml files. Picking a machine name First, you need a machine name for your profile. This is a name consisting of lowercase letters and underscores only. From here on, all references to profilename imply the profile machine name.