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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

Theme hook suggestions

A great thing about theme hooks is that they are reusable. However, one problem you'll encounter is that theme hook templates lose context when a theme hook is reused. For example, the item_list theme hook, whose definition we saw in the previous section, has no idea what list it is theming. And this makes it difficult to style differently depending on what that content is. Fortunately, we can provide context to the theme system by using a theme hook pattern instead of the original theme hook name, and this pattern looks something like this:

base_theme_hook__some_context 

The parts of the pattern are separated with a double underscore and together they are called a theme hook suggestion. But how does this work?

Client code (the render arrays, as we will soon see), when using a theme hook to render a piece of data, can append the context to the theme...

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