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Drupal 10 Module Development

Drupal 10 Module Development

By : Sipos
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Drupal 10 Module Development

Drupal 10 Module Development

4.7 (10)
By: Sipos

Overview of this book

Embark on a journey of Drupal module development with the latest edition of this must-have guide written by Daniel Sipos – a Drupal community member! This fourth edition is meticulously revised to cover the latest Drupal 10 enhancements that will help you build custom Drupal modules with an understanding of code deprecations, changing architecture, data modeling, multilingual ecosystem, and so on. You’ll begin with understanding the core components of Drupal 10 architecture, discovering its subsystems and unlocking the secrets of creating your first Drupal module. Further, you'll delve into Drupal logging and mailing systems, creating theme hooks, and rendering a layout. As you progress, you'll work with different types of data storage, custom entities, field types, and work with Database APIs for lower-level database queries. You'll learn to reap the power of JavaScript and ensure that your code works seamlessly on multilingual sites. You'll also learn to create custom views, automate tests for your functionalities, and write secure code for your Drupal apps. By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence in developing complex modules that can solve even the most complex business problems and might even become a valuable contributor to the Drupal community!
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Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing

Exposing custom data to Views

To get a better understanding of how Views works, we are going to look at an example of totally custom data and how we can expose it to Views. Based on that, we will begin to understand the role of various plugins and can begin to create our own. Additionally, we’ll be able to expand on our product entity type data to enrich its Views interaction.

To exemplify all of this, we are going to revisit our sports module where we declared the players and teams tables of data and that we will now be exposing to Views. The goal is to allow site builders to create dynamic listings of this data as they see fit. The lessons learned from this example can be applied to other data sources as well, even things such as remote APIs (with some extra work).

Views data

Whenever we want to expose data to Views, we need to define this data in a way Views can understand. That is actually what EntityViewsData::getViewsData() does for content entities. However,...

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