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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Sipos
Book Image

Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Sipos

Overview of this book

Embark on a journey of Drupal module development with the latest edition of this must-have guide written by Daniel Sipos – a Drupal community member! This fourth edition is meticulously revised to cover the latest Drupal 10 enhancements that will help you build custom Drupal modules with an understanding of code deprecations, changing architecture, data modeling, multilingual ecosystem, and so on. You’ll begin with understanding the core components of Drupal 10 architecture, discovering its subsystems and unlocking the secrets of creating your first Drupal module. Further, you'll delve into Drupal logging and mailing systems, creating theme hooks, and rendering a layout. As you progress, you'll work with different types of data storage, custom entities, field types, and work with Database APIs for lower-level database queries. You'll learn to reap the power of JavaScript and ensure that your code works seamlessly on multilingual sites. You'll also learn to create custom views, automate tests for your functionalities, and write secure code for your Drupal apps. By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence in developing complex modules that can solve even the most complex business problems and might even become a valuable contributor to the Drupal community!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing

Block access

Another major area where you will deal with access is when trying to control access to a custom block. If you remember, in Chapter 2, Creating Your First Module, we created the HelloWorldSalutationBlock plugin so that our salutation can also be rendered using a block. Now that block can be placed in a region and even configured to show up only on certain pages, for certain user roles, or even on node pages restricted by bundle. This is all done in the UI:

Figure 10.3: Configuring our custom block

Figure 10.3: Configuring our custom block

However, this is oftentimes not enough, and you will want to have a block placed in a region and control under what circumstances it should show up yourself. Enter block access.

Inside the BlockBase plugin base class, there is the blockAccess() method, which always returns positively. This is because, by default, all blocks will be rendered once they are placed in a region. Unless, of course, they are configured to only show in certain cases, in...