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Drupal 9 Module Development - Third Edition

By : Daniel Sipos
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Drupal 9 Module Development - Third Edition

By: Daniel Sipos

Overview of this book

With its latest release, Drupal 9, the popular open source CMS platform has been updated with new functionalities for building complex Drupal apps with ease. This third edition of the Drupal Module Development guide covers these new Drupal features, helping you to stay on top of code deprecations and the changing architecture with every release. The book starts by introducing you to the Drupal 9 architecture and its subsystems before showing you how to create your first module with basic functionality. You’ll explore the Drupal logging and mailing systems, learn how to output data using the theme layer, and work with menus and links programmatically. Once you’ve understood the different kinds of data storage, this Drupal guide will demonstrate how to create custom entities and field types and leverage the Database API for lower-level database queries. You’ll also learn how to introduce JavaScript into your module, work with various file systems, and ensure that your code works on multilingual sites. Finally, you’ll work with Views, create automated tests for your functionality, and write secure code. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to develop custom modules that can provide solutions to complex business problems, and who knows, maybe you’ll even contribute to the Drupal community!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing

Defining local tasks

Let's now take a look at an example of how we can define local task links by heading back to our Hello World module. On the /hello page, let's add two local tasks—one for the regular /hello page, and the other for the configuration form where the salutation can be changed. This is a good example of using local tasks (tabs), as the configuration form is strictly related to what is on the page and is used to make changes to it.

As I mentioned, local tasks go inside a *.links.task.yml file. So, let's create one for our module with two links in it:

hello_world.page:
  route_name: hello_world.hello
  title: 'Hello World'
  base_route: hello_world.hello
hello_world.config:
  route_name: hello_world.greeting_form
  title: 'Configuration'
  base_route: hello_world.hello
  weight: 100

As usual, the topmost lines are the machine name (plugin IDs) of the...