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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Matt Glaman
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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

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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.
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Creating a configuration entity type

In this recipe, we will create a configuration entity type called Announcement. This will provide a configuration entity that allows you to create, edit, and delete messages that can be displayed on the site for important announcements.

Configuration entities do not interact with Drupal’s Field API and do not have a user interface to add fields. They have properties defined on their class like models in other frameworks. However, configuration entities do not have dedicated tables in the database. They are stored in the config table as serialized data. The purpose of a configuration entity is for configuration. Examples of configuration entities are view displays, form displays, and contact forms.

How to do it…

  1. First, we need to create the src/Entity directory in the module’s directory. This will translate to the \Drupal\mymodule\Entity namespace and allow for entity type discovery:
    mkdir -p src/Entity
  2. Create...
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