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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

Post update hooks

Partly due to the weak configuration management system in versions of Drupal (7 and before), the update hooks we just talked about have evolved—through developer creativity—into a mechanism for updating various types of configuration or performing tasks (even content-related) upon deployment to the next environment. Helping out with this is the $sandbox argument passed to the hook implementations, which can be used to batch these operations (to prevent an execution timeout). We will not cover the batching aspect here but rather as part of the standalone Batch API chapter.

Since Drupal 8, we no longer have to misuse the update hooks for performing tasks that are not strictly related to updating schemas: be that our own custom table schemas or content entity ones. Instead, we can use hook_post_update_NAME().

Post update hooks are fired after update hooks have run and we are sure all the database tables have been brought to their correct state. They...

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