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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Displaying Content through Views

The Views module in Drupal is a visual query builder that enables you to build dynamic content displays without writing any code. We will walk through how to create a page to list blogs and a companion block to display five of the most recent blogs. Then, we will move into creating exposed filters to allow end users to control the view results. You will also learn some more advanced topics using contextual filters and custom entity reference widget output. Finally, we will cover how to use the Charts module to output a chart of data with Views.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following recipes:

  • Creating a blog landing page
  • Creating a block of recent blogs
  • Exposing filters and sorts to users to control listings
  • Contextual filters for filtering by path parameters
  • Adding related data in a view with relationships
  • Providing an entity reference result view
  • Displaying charts using Views