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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 charts using Views

In this recipe, we will use the Charts module to create graphs using the Views module. The Charts module integrates different graphing libraries with the Views module. The view created in this recipe will display a graph based on statistics generated from the Statistic modules to graph visits to content on the Drupal site.

Leverage the Charts module to create a view that renders a chart of data.

Getting ready

This recipe requires having enough data available to put into a graph. We will be using data available from the Statistics module, which tracks content page views. To generate content and view statistics, we will use the Devel (for Development) module. This module provides the means of generating sample content and populating statistics.

To use Devel to generate content, we must add it with Composer and install it with Drush:

composer require drupal/devel
php vendor/bin/drush en devel_generate statistics --yes

Now, we can generate...