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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a custom field formatter


Field formatters define the way in which a field type will be presented. These formatters return the render array information to be processed by the theming layer. Field formatters are configured on the display mode interfaces.

In this recipe, we will create a formatter for the field created in the Creating a custom field type recipe in this chapter. The field formatter will display the first and last names with some settings.

Getting ready

Create a new module like the one existing in the first recipe. We will refer to the module as mymodule throughout the recipe. Use your module's appropriate name.

How to do it...

  1. We will need to create the src/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter directory in the module's base location. The Field module discovers field formatters in the Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter namespace.
  2. Create a RealNameFormatter.php file in the newly created directory so that we can define the RealNameFormatter class. This will provide a custom form element to...