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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

Private filesystem

The private filesystem is used whenever we want to control access to the files being downloaded. Using the default public storage, users can get to the files simply by pointing to them in the browser, thereby bypassing Drupal completely. However, .htaccess rules prevent users from directly accessing any files in the private storage, making it necessary to create a route that delivers the requested file. It goes without saying that the latter is a hell of a lot less performant, as Drupal needs to be loaded for each file. Therefore, it's important to only use it when files should be restricted based on certain criteria.

Drupal already comes with a route and Controller ready to download private files, but we can create one as well if we really need to. For example, the Image module does so in order to control the creation and download of image styles—ImageStyleDownloadController.

The route definition for the default Drupal path looks like this:

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