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Drupal 8 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Module Development Build modules and themes using the latest version of Drupal 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612363
Length 580 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing for Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Module 3. Logging and Mailing 4. Theming 5. Menus and Menu Links 6. Data Modeling and Storage 7. Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. The Database API 9. Custom Fields 10. Access Control 11. Caching 12. JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Internationalization and Languages 14. Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Views 16. Working with Files and Images 17. Automated Testing 18. Drupal 8 Security 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Rendering menus

Now that we have covered some theory about the menu system, it's time to get our hands dirty with some code. The first thing we will look at is how to work with menus programmatically with the view of rendering them in our module. For this, we will work with the default Administration menu that comes with Drupal core and has many links in it, at various levels. Note that the code we write in this section will not be included in the code repository.

Drupal core provides a block, called SystemMenuBlock, which can be used to render any menu inside a block. However, let's take a look at how we can do this ourselves instead.

The first thing we will need to do is get the MenuLinkTree service. We can inject it, or, if that's not possible, get it statically via the helper \Drupal class:

$menu_link_tree = \Drupal::menuTree(); 

Next, we will need to create...

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