uilding Smarter Websites with Drupal 11's AI-Powered Modules

use Drupal\openai\Service\OpenAIService;
$openai = \Drupal::service('openai.api');
$response = $openai->chat('Generate SEO description for Drupal AI article.');
$description = $response['message'] ?? '';

2. Smart Content Module

Provides AI-based content targeting and personalization using conditions and visitor behavior.

✅ Features:

• Show/hide blocks based on browser, location, or behavior

• Personalize content without coding

• Integrates with external ML models

🔧 Install:

composer require drupal/smart_content
drush en smart_content

Admin UI:
/admin/structure/block/smart-content

Use Case:
Show a welcome message to returning users in Canada

$country = \Drupal::service('smart_content.context_manager')->getContext('country');
if ($country == 'Canada') {
  return ['#markup' => 'Welcome back, Canadian user!'];
}

3. Image Caption AI / Automatic Alt Text

Uses ML (like Microsoft Cognitive Services or Google Vision) to automatically generate alt text for images.

✅ Benefits:

• Improves accessibility (WCAG)

• Saves time on manual entry

• Multilingual support

🔧 Install:

composer require drupal/image_caption
drush en image_caption

Config:
/admin/config/media/image-caption

Example Output:

“A group of people at a conference” (auto-generated alt text for an event photo)

4. AI Content Classifier (Taxonomy Tagging)

Auto-tags content using AI models like Hugging Face’s NLP classifiers.

✅ Features:

• Automatic taxonomy term suggestions

• Improves search relevance

• Useful for news, blogs, product categorization

🔧 Install (custom setup)

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

Example Integration Code (Hugging Face)

$client = \Drupal::httpClient();
$response = $client->post('https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/facebook/bart-large-mnli', [
  'headers' => ['Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
  'json' => ['inputs' => 'This article explains AI features in Drupal 11']
]);
$data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
// Use $data['labels'] for suggested tags

🔄 Bonus: AI for Migration & Automation

Migrate Plus + GPT Script Generator

You can use ChatGPT to generate YAML configs for migrate_plus

id: migrate_articles
label: Import Articles
source:
  plugin: csv
  path: 'public://articles.csv'
process:
  title: title
  body: body
destination:
  plugin: node
  default_bundle: article

Then feed it into Drush Migrate: