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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)

Contextual filters for filtering by path parameters

Views can be configured to accept contextual filters, also known as arguments. Contextual filters allow you to provide a dynamic or fixed argument that modifies the view’s query. Think of it as the root condition in the query. By default, the value is expected to be provided from the URL; otherwise, a default operation can be chosen if it is not present.

In this recipe, we will create a new page called My Content, which will display a user’s authored content in the /user/{user_id}/content path. The value of {user_id} will be any user ID that is available in Drupal.

How to do it…

  1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to an administrative overview of all the views that have been created. Click on Add view to create a new view.
  2. Set View name to My Content.
  3. Next, we will modify the View settings section. We want to show Content of the All type and leave the tagged with field empty...