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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

Theming our Hello World module

The HelloWorldController we built in Chapter 2, Creating Your First Module, currently uses a service to retrieve the string to be used as the salutation and then returns a simple markup render array with it. Let’s imagine now that we want to output this message but wrap it in our own specific markup. To make an easy thing complicated, we want to break up the salutation string into parts so that they can be styled slightly differently. Additionally, we want to allow others to override our theme using suggestions that depend on whether or not the salutation has been overridden via the configuration form. So, let’s see how we can do these things.

To get things started, this is the markup we are after:

<div class="salutation">
  Good morning <span class="salutation—target">world</span>
</div>

The first thing we need to do is to define our own theme hook capable of outputting...

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