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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Matt Glaman
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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Matt Glaman

Overview of this book

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes. We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Utilizing dynamic arguments


Views can be configured to accept contextual filters. Contextual filters allow you to provide a dynamic argument that modifies the view's output. The value is expected to be passed from the URL; however, if it is not present, there are ways to provide a default value.

In this recipe, we will create a new page called My Content, which will display a user's authored content on the /user/%/content route.

How to do it...

  1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views created. Click on Add view to create a new view.
  2. Set the View name to My Content.
  3. Next, we will modify the View settings. We want to display Content of the type All and leave the Taggedwith empty. This will allow all content to be displayed.

 

  1. Select Createa page. Keep the page title the same. We will need to change the path to user/%user/content. Click on Save and edit to move to the next screen and add the contextual filter.

Note

When building a views page...